Success And Failure Quotes

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage

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• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Military, Failure

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

  Ken Robinson

  Failure, Creativity, Originality

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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Cute, Positive

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  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

  Lloyd Jones

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

  Joyce Brothers

  Positive, Success, Determination

  "The Pocket Philosopher/ Psychologist" by Mark J. Merten, (p. 87), 2004.

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• The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

  Barack Obama

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

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• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Congratulations, Succeeding In Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  "23 Leadership Tips From Oprah Winfrey" by John Greathouse, www.forbes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Veterans Day, Motivation

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.165, Random House

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Mary Pickford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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