Quotes About Success

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.