Success Or Failure Quotes

• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Military, Failure

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  You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

  Johnny Cash

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Time, Mistake

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.112, Penguin

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Mistake

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• The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

  Barack Obama

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

  Peyton Manning

  Attitude, Situation, Approach

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• I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.

  Lester Sumrall

  Skills, Giving, Doe

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• It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

  Bruce Lee

  Heart, Men, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

  Edgar Cayce

  Trying, Righteousness

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• You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

  Alice James

  Lying, Failure, Luck

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Doe, Individual, Depends

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• What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Success, Women, Empowering

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• Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Judging, Judgment

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• Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Men, People

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• Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

  James Lane Allen

  Success, Attitude, Fall

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• We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

  William James

  Teaching, Eye, Bystanders

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Science, Giving

  Letter to Theodore Puskas, 18 Nov. 1878.

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• If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

  Jeff Beck

  Plot, Ifs

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