Success & Failure Quotes

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Barbara Bush

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Steve Jobs

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Woodrow Wilson

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

John W. Mackay

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Jean de La Fontaine

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Churchill

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;who has left the world better than he found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;whose life was an inspiration;whose memory a benediction.http://www.rwe.org/pages/in_pursuit_of_the_truth_of_Success.htm

Bessie Anderson Stanley, 1904

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Alexander Graham Bell

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Fran Tarkenton

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Barbra Streisand

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Charles E. Wilson

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh