Success & Failure Quotes

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Gilberte Beaux

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Oprah Winfrey

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

Paul Zane Pilzer

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

William James, in a letter to H.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

David Merrick

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Howard Whitman

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Sir Walter Besant

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Al Bernstein

The road to success runs uphill.

Willie Davis

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

Bo Bennett

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Wayne Dyer

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Wayne Dyer

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Robert Thibodeau

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Helen Gurley Brown