Quotes on Success And Failure

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.