Success / Failure Quotes

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean Paul Sartre

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Dame Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Dame Agatha Christie

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Alfred Hitchcock

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
Fidel Castro

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Titus

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.