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"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view."
-Anon.
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
http://www.rwe.org/pages/in_pursuit_of_the_truth_of_Success.htm
-Anon., (widely and falsely attributed to Emerson, actually derived from a piece written by Bessie Anderson Stanley)
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
-Muhammad Ali, After losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
-Woody Allen
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"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
-Maya Angelou
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
-Mary Kay Ash
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I’m so obsessed with this theme that I actually keep a “failure file.” What stands out for me in the biographies of Faulkner and Fitzgerald are the months and years they wasted out in Hollywood, getting sodden over their squandered gifts. Cyril Connolly, one of the most distinguished critics of his day, made his name with a book, Enemies of Promise, that elegiacally bemoaned his lack of distinction. And the novelist Paul Auster writes in his memoir, Hand to Mouth, “In my late twenties and early thirties, I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure.” Ah!
-James Atlas, My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor’s Tale
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To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!
-Sasha Azevedo
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
-Max Beerbohm
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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
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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
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"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
-Jack Benny
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"For many are called, but few are chosen."
-Bible, Matthew 22:14
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"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
-David Brinkley
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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
-Joyce Brothers
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
-John Burroughs
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"They never fail who die in a great cause."
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none."
-Philip Caldwell
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
-Bill Cosby
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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
-Salvador Dali
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
-Josephus Daniels
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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
-David McCullough
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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
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"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."
-Mary O'Hare Dumas
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"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
-Thomas Alva Edison
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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
-Albert Einstein
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Success is the sum of details.
-Harry Firestone
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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
-Harry Firestone
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Victory is a thing of the will.
-Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
-Henry Ford
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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
-E. M. Forster, “Our Diversions: The Game of Life”, "repr. In Abinger Harvest (1936)", 1919
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
-Bill Gates
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I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
-Betty Grable
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Success isn't something you have to get, its just the automatic consequence of integrity. If you're the best carpenter around, you don't have to advertise.
-David R. Hawkins
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
-Napoleon Hill
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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.G. Wells
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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
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
-John Keats
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
-Ann Landers
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
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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
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"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
-Charles Luckman
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"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."
-Harold MacMillan, 1963
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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.
-Orison Swett Marden
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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"It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail."
-David Merrick
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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-Christopher Morley
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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
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"I concede!"
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."
-Aristotle Onassis
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
-Colin Powell
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough . . .
-Gail Sheehy
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-Beverly Sills
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The best revenge is massive success.
-Frank Sinatra
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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
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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
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"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works."
-William Strong
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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
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."
-Lily Tomlin
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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
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The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
-Thomas J. Watson
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Roethlisberger argues that people who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question. They ask, “what is the secret of success” when they should be asking, “what prevents me from learning here and now?” To be overly preoccupied with the future is to be inattentive toward the present where learning and growth take place. To walk around asking, “am I a success or a failure” is a silly question in the sense that the closest you can come to answer is to say, everyone is both a success and a failure.
-Karl Weick, "How Projects Lose Meaning: The Dynamics of Renewal" in Renewing Research Practice by R. Stablein and P. Frost (Eds.). Stanford, CA: Stanford. 2004.
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"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-Sloan Wilson
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"Nothing recedes like success."
-Walter Winchell
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I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!
-Elijah Wood
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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
-George E. Woodberry
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Books about Success & Failure
