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Quotes About Achievement

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.
~ Jose Mourinho
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
~ B. C. Forbes
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
~ Marva Collins
If you're not a target, you're a failure.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.
~ George W. Bush
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
~ Michael Eisner
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
~ William Hazlitt
Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
~ Napoleon Hill
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
~ Donald Barthelme
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~ Gore Vidal
There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.
~ Henry Ford
My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure
~ Kobe Bryant
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).
~ Aristotle
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
~ William Faulkner
A success unshared is a failure.
~ John Paul DeJoria
Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!
~ Eckhart Tolle
I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.
~ Marion Jones
If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.
~ Chris Hadfield
Success is somebody else's failure.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Failure is the true test of greatness
~ Herman Melville
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams.
~ Michael Jordan
The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.
~ Claude Lelouch