Success Quotes

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.

~ Goldie Hawn

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

~ Coco Chanel

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

~ Kevin Bacon

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

~ John C. Maxwell

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

~ Herbert Kaufman

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

~ Mike Ditka

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

~ George Burns

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

~ Napoleon Hill

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

~ Richard Branson

Failure is a part of success.

~ Hank Aaron

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

~ Edsger Dijkstra

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

~ Thomas J. Watson

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

~ J. Paul Getty

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

~ Sylvester Stallone

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

~ Pawan Kalyan

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

~ Tennessee Williams

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

~ Sōichirō Honda

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

~ Gordon Ramsay

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

~ Arianna Huffington

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

~ Alfred Adler

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

~ Martha Beck

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

~ Jay Samit

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

~ Shahid Khan

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

~ Tommy Lasorda

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

~ James Dyson

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

~ Ann Landers

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

~ Paulo Coelho

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

~ Kareena Kapoor Khan

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

~ Bill Cosby

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

~ Graham Greene

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

~ George Burns

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

~ Gary Ryan Blair

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

~ James Cameron

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

~ Robert Browning

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow