Success and Failure Quotes
Most popular success & failure quotes
![A minute's success pays the failure of years. - Robert Browning quote.](/img/q/25/7925A-a-minutes-success-pays-the-failure-years-robert-browning.png)
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
![Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard quote.](/img/q/01/20201A-failure-is-not-our-only-punishment-laziness-there-is-also-jules-renard.png)
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
![There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy quote.](/img/q/52/29252A-theres-an-old-saying-that-victory-has-hundred-fathers-defeat-john-f-kennedy.png)
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
![We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes. - A. Bronson Alcott quote.](/img/q/86/30686A-we-mount-to-heaven-mostly-on-ruins-our-cherished-schemes-a-bronson-alcott.png)
We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.
![To the eye of failure success is an accident with a presumption of crime. - Ambrose Bierce quote.](/img/q/90/30690A-to-the-eye-of-failure-success-is-accident-with-presumption-ambrose-bierce.png)
To the eye of failure success is an accident with a presumption of crime.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
![The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. - B. C. Forbes quote.](/img/q/05/30705A-the-man-who-has-done-his-level-best-who-is-b-c-forbes.png)
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
![Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford quote.](/img/q/06/30706A-failure-is-the-opportunity-to-begin-again-more-intelligently-henry-ford.png)
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
One of the ingredients most necessary for success is failure.
![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. - John Keats quote.](/img/q/19/30719A-failure-is-in-a-sense-the-highway-success-inasmuch-as-john-keats.png)
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.
![We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles quote.](/img/q/40/30740A-we-learn-wisdom-from-failure-much-more-than-from-success-samuel-smiles.png)
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
![Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. - Graham Greene quote.](/img/q/33/40333A-success-is-more-dangerous-than-failure-ripples-break-over-wider-graham-greene.png)
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
![Success has made failures of many men. - Cindy Adams quote.](/img/q/75/40375A-success-has-made-failures-of-many-men-cindy-adams.png)
Success has made failures of many men.
![I'd rather be a failure at something I love than successful at something I hated. - George Burns quote.](/img/q/81/40381A-id-rather-be-a-failure-at-something-i-love-than-george-burns.png)
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than successful at something I hated.
Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.
![Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill quote.](/img/q/88/40388A-every-failure-brings-with-it-the-seed-equivalent-success-napoleon-hill.png)
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
![The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and don't know it. - Elbert Hubbard quote.](/img/q/89/40389A-the-line-between-failure-and-success-is-so-fine-that-elbert-hubbard.png)
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and don't know it.
![Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. Success is the lurking place of failure; but who can tell when the turning-place will come? - Lao Tzu quote.](/img/q/92/40392A-failure-is-the-foundation-of-success-means-by-which-it-lao-tzu.png)
Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. Success is the lurking place of failure; but who can tell when the turning-place will come?
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 cruel and bitter.
![Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches. - Hyman Rickover quote.](/img/q/95/40395A-success-teaches-us-nothing-only-failure-teaches-hyman-rickover.png)
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Success and failure—we think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions—the hero and the sidekick.
![Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. - Mark Twain quote.](/img/q/99/40399A-human-nature-is-the-same-everywhere-it-deifies-success-it-mark-twain.png)
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
![The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. - Charles Dickens quote.](/img/q/85/51685A-the-success-is-not-mine-the-failure-is-not-mine-dickens.png)
The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.