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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Time

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Inspiring, Perseverance

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Powerful, Failure

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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

  Francis Chan

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.92, David C Cook

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