Success Or Failure Quotes

• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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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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  You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

  Johnny Cash

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Time, Mistake

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.112, Penguin

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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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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Success, Mistake

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• Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

  Peyton Manning

  Attitude, Situation, Approach

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• It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

  Bruce Lee

  Heart, Men, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.

  Lester Sumrall

  Skills, Giving, Doe

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• It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

  Edgar Cayce

  Trying, Righteousness

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• The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

  Alice James

  Lying, Failure, Luck

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  George Nakashima

  Mean, Men, Tree

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• Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.

  Tom Hoover

  Success, Failure, Reality

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• I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Detours

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Daughter, Sex

  Kevin Leman (2014). “Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

  George Orwell

  Elements, Consideration, Capacity

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• The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

  Saul Alinsky

  Father, Hero, Mean

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.34, Vintage

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Courage, Coward, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

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• The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Character, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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