Success And Failure Quotes - Page 11

• I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.

  Wendy Williams

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Dice

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Borders, Life Happiness, Difficult

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2012). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.1255, Vertical, Inc.

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• I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

  Cameron Crowe

  America, Obsession, Wanted

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• Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

  Criss Jami

  People, Goal, Risk

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.18, Criss Jami

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• I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

  Moby

  Years, Equal, Happened

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

  Scott Stossel

  Fighting, Missing, Alive

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• There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Two, World, Sin

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vices, World, Language

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• Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Disappointment, Grief, Joy

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• Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• Strength is magical, just a little bit more can mean the difference between success and failure.

  Mike Berry

  Mean, Differences, Littles

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• the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

  Gloria Steinem

  Winning, Politics, Want

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• I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Trying, Succeed, Failing

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• What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Acquisition

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

  Bette Davis

  Disappointment, Inherent, Built

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• I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

  George Sand

  Upset, Mind, Succeed

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

  Jane Bowles

  Victory, Faces, Defeat

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan

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• Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

  Jane Jacobs

  Errors, Cities, Design

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

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• People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

  Rumer Godden

  Successful, Should Have, People

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

  M. Scott Peck

  Adversity, Cutting, Problem

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• There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

  Bill Walton

  Fate, Simple, Guarantees In Life

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

  Ross Perot

  Differences, Personality, Unexpected

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• It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Taken, Succeed, Done

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• The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

  Martha Beck

  Determination, Heart, Differences

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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