Quotessence
Home / Topics / Success Failure Quotes

Success Failure Quotes

Browse 193 quotes about Success Failure.

Related topics

Success Failure Quotes

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

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

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

“A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.”

“Do your best with what you have where you are.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.”

“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

“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.”

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

“Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!”

“While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.”

“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

“Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.”