Success & Failure Quotes

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

Kin Hubbard

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

William Shakespeare

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Dr. Marcus Bach

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Bible, Matthew 22:14

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Harold MacMillan, 1963

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.

Mary O'Hare Dumas

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

David Brinkley

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

John R. Amos

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Eddie Robinson

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Johann von Goethe

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Mark Twain

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Mark Twain

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Mark Twain