Failure Success Quotes

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. ~ Napoleon Hill

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. ~ William Hurt

You always pass failure on your way to success. ~ Mickey Rooney

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success ... ~ John Keats

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ~ Edsger Dijkstra

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously. ~ Richard G. Scott

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.' ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ~ Sylvester Stallone

Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos of shaming events, you'll close that album and walk away thinking, Shame defines that story. If, on the other hand, you open that album and see a few small photos of shame experiences, but each one is surrounded by pictures of worthiness, hope, struggle, resilience, courage, failure, success, and vulnerability, the shame experience are only a part of a larger story. They don't define the album. ~ Brene Brown

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a "quick return to power," forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible "dialogue" with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls "realism."
Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution ... One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders. ~ Paulo Freire

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure. ~ Bill Vaughan

It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way. ~ Aristotle.

When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away. ~ Debasish Mridha

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail. ~ Kazu Kibuishi

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better. ~ Mark Batterson

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure. ~ Charles M. Schwab

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ~ Margaret Drabble

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. ~ Sumner Redstone

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense. ~ Felicia Day

People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is merit in utter failure.
Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. The market for his work took off big-time shortly after his death. Had he decided to stick around another few decades he most likely would've entered old age quite prosperous. And sadly for failures everywhere, the cliché would have lost a lot of its power.
The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy. ~ Hugh MacLeod

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure. ~ Tom Robbins

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat - these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and night they change place before us, and wisdom cannot spy out their source. Therefore, they should not be enough to destroy your harmony; they should not be allowed to enter the storehouse of the spirit. If you can harmonize and delight in them, master them and never be at a loss for joy; if you can do this day and night without break and make it be spring with everything, mingling with all and creating the moment within your own mind - this is what I call being whole in power. ~ Zhuangzi

Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to be convince yourself of. ~ Rachel Cusk

True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed ~ Brian Leslie

I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful. ~ Faith Baldwin

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure. ~ Judy Garland

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ~ Ann Landers

Failure is the pathway that leads to success. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure. ~ Earl Wilson

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention. ~ Mark Batterson

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures. ~ John Powell

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. ~ Jeremy Irons

For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure. ~ Christopher Titus

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. ~ Anna Neagle

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. ~ Zig Ziglar

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. ~ Gordon Ramsay

Failure is a fundamental piece of success. ~ Ben Tolosa

Success is the process of not accepting failure. ~ Georgette Mosbacher

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. ~ J. Paul Getty

It's impossible to fail if one doesn't know how the end should look. And it's impossible to succeed. But it's possible to enjoy. ~ Sarah Manguso

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. ~ Paulo Coelho

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ... ~ J.M. August

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure. ~ Martha Beck

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road. ~ Jack Hyles

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ~ John F. Kennedy

In life; don't go chasing after everything, or if you go for something, never doubt and miss the step, Or else you will miss a trick of the tail and lose everything. ~ Auliq Ice

Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you. ~ Robert G. Allen

Success is often harder to take than failure ... ~ Kathleen Winsor

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. ~ Shane Leslie

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm ~ Kurt Vonnegut

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. ~ Wynonna Judd

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. ~ Herman Melville

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ~ Confucius

I was going to either fail or thrive, and I was going to do it in full view of everyone I respected and resented. ~ David Chang

After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. ~ Dorothy Day

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~ Rudyard Kipling

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate. ~ George Burns

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. ~ Tommy Lasorda

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. ~ Malcolm X

A worthy failure is more valuable than a mediocre success. ~ Kuo Pao Kun

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it. ~ Joyce Rachelle

You must rise up anytime you fall. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. ~ Morihei Ueshiba

To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream. ~ Orrin Woodward

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. ~ Henry David Thoreau

When you decide to remove the word "failure" from your dictionary, it is definitely time for you to re-evaluate your definition of the word "success". Those who found success without going through failures never found true success, only delusions. ~ Charbel Tadros

Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

There is only one reason of YOUR failure..
'You ~ Himmilicious

In order to advance, we have to take advantage not only of our success, but also of our failure. ~ Ghassan Shahrour MD

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. ~ Natalie Goldberg

Failure is a success if you learn from it. ~ Auliq Ice

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure. ~ Sara Blakely

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success. ~ Randy Gage

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. ~ Michael Korda

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often. ~ Steven Kotler

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~ Earl Wilson

I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we had to form an equally strong and enduring connection to each other. Any gap between us was a failure. Success would come when neither of us knew where one ended and the other began. ~ Gary Shteyngart

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success. ~ Abdul Kalam

The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion. ~ Wayde Goodall

There's no right or wrong, success or failure. ~ Miley Cyrus

A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing. ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure. ~ Roland Gift

Let us be thankful for the fools,' Mark Twain wrote with typically dark humor in 1897. 'But for them the rest of us could not succeed.' Of all the paradoxes of failure in America, surely this is the darkest. Long ago, we saw through old fables of rags to riches; it is still fun to dream, but we know that we are partaking of a cultural myth. But if we do not quite believe in that kind of success, our faith in the myths of failure is unshaken. We are merrily cynical about whether the average tycoon really tugged on those bootstraps, but we still believe with deadly seriousness that the reasons for failure are usually individual-- "in the man." Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream; it is the foundation of it. The American Dream gives each of us the chance to be a born loser. ~ Scott A. Sandage

Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually. ~ Tim Minchin

If you Never Give Up, you can Beat The Best !! ~ Manu Pratap

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n аw. That's it; end ay fuckin story. ~ Irvine Welsh

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything. ~ Raymond Blanc

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure. ~ William Walton

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. ~ Corey Hart

If I'm going to fall, as long as I fall forward I'm still going in the right direction. ~ Suzette Vearnon

Success is a target only for failures. ~ Meir Ezra

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. ~ Sam Donaldson