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Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure
Sep 17, 2025
For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.
Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.
The only people who never fail are those who never try
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.
Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.
Every failure is a step to success.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you think you can - you can!
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.