Success & Failure Quotes

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

Jay House

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Hamilton Holt

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

James Barrie

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Diana Rankin

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

We must be the epitome - the embodiment - of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Earl Nightingale

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'.

Margaret Thatcher

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me try harder next time.

Michael Jordan

For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.

Grace Speare

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

My definition of success is control.

Kenneth Branagh

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Howard Whitman

To give your best is to receive the best.

Raymond Holliwell

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Billie Holiday

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

James P. Hogan

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Leon Gambetta

The only way around is through.

Robert Frost