Quotes on Success And Failure

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.