Success & Failure Quotes

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James Atlas, My Life in the Midd

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Charles E. Popplestone

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Thomas J. Watson

Success doesn't suck.

Darius Rucker

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

John Dewey

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

Gillian Anderson

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Donald Rumsfeld

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

C. W. Wendte

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Alfred A. Montapert