Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
- Malcolm S. Forbes (wealthy publisher)
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- the movie Cool Hand Luke
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Choose to adopt the attitude toward failure that sports teams do.
In each game, one team succeeds and one fails.
Then the next week they both get out and play again.
Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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