Success Quotes

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

~ Gail Sheehy

The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.

~ James R. Clapper

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

~ Nick Saban

The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

~ Adam Grant

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

~ Michael Crawford

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

~ Rickey Henderson

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

~ Jesse Jackson

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

~ George W. Bush

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.

~ Murray Rothbard

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

~ Arjun Kapoor

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

~ Hideo Kojima

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

~ Orlando Bloom

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

~ Peter Diamandis

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

~ Ben Carson

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

~ Naveen Jain

Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.

~ David Petraeus

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

~ Michael Korda

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

~ Michael Korda

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

~ Mariella Frostrup

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

~ Andrew Breitbart

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

~ Steve Blank

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

~ Ryan Holiday

I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.

~ Rakul Preet Singh

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

~ Jonathan Kozol

Success and failure are equally surprising.

~ Daryl Hall

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

~ Randeep Hooda

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

~ Randeep Hooda

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

~ Amy Tan

I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

~ Aaron Sorkin

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

~ William Hurt

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

~ Suki Waterhouse

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

~ Miley Cyrus

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

~ Jeremy Irons

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

~ Denis Waitley