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Ethel Barrymore

I???m so obsessed with this theme that I actually keep a ???failure file.??? What stands out for me in the biographies of Faulkner and Fitzgerald are the months and years they wasted out in Hollywood, getting sodden over their squandered gifts. Cyril Connolly,

Bo Bennett

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - per

Jack Benny

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the

Sir Winston Churchill

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Albert Einstein

I have not failed. I???ve just found 10,000 ways that don???t work.

Ernest Hemingway

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is

Aristotle Onassis

I concede!

Henry David Thoreau

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Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... 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.

Joseph Heller

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Denis Watley

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

Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Paul Aubuchon

She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.

John Keats

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. 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, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Joseph Sugarman

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Parcells

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Unknown

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Louise Nevelson

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

William Whewell

Every failure is a step to success...

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Jules Renard

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Mike Ditka

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

George Burns

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

B. C. Forbes

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Mike Ditka

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Edward Eggleston

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

George Burns

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

Robert Browning

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Michael Eisner

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Earl Wilson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Anon.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Denis Watley

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Bill Cosby

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Robert Albert Bloch

Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Michael J. Gelb

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Josh Traeger

The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

Joyce

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Scott Adams

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Mary Catherine Bateson

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Dorthea Bragg

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

Frances Watkins Harper

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

William S. Gilbert

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Walter Scott

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

Herbert Kaufman

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

Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time.

William Saroyan

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consid

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satis

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

If at first we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Who is Gen Failure & why is he reading my hard drive?

Drive A: format failure, formatting C: instead...

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

General Failure reading John Dvorak

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.