Success / failure Quotes · Page 2

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

— Mason Cooley

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

— Grant Tinker

BE CAREFUL THERE IS NO MUCH DISTANCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE.

— CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

— Georgette Mosbacher

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

— Anonymous

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

— Henry David Thoreau

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

— Bruce Fordyce

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

— Stephen Hawking

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

— Peter Drucker

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success,…

— Claire Messud

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

— Thomas J. Watson

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

— Jim Rohn

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA,…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will…

— Eric Idle

Sometimes you just got to look at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day, and admit to yourself there…

— Randy Frank Manzardo

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

— Barack Obama

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more…

— Albert Einstein

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you…

— Michael Korda

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail…

— Lord Chesterfield

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a…

— Norman Vincent Peale

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.

— William Walton

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

— James Dyson

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

— Chris Matthews

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

— Max Beerbohm

You always pass failure on the way to success.

— Mickey Rooney

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

— Ken Robinson

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

— Ambrose Bierce

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

— John W. Gardner

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

— Johnny Cash

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

— Albert Einstein

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Success is often harder to take than failure.

— Kathleen Winsor

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

— Michael Eisner

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

— Pearl S. Buck

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

— Tom Robbins

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

— Madonna Ciccone

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be…

— Herman Melville