Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Success & Failure

Success isn’t necessarily permanent—but neither is failure.
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There is no royal road; you’ve got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
Charles Erwin Wilson (1890–1961) American Businessperson

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang (1920–90) Chinese-born American Engineer, Inventor, Entrepreneur

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
Michael Korda (b.1933) English-born Writer, Novelist

Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen (b.1948) American Public Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Writer

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman (1905–84) American Dramatist, Memoirist

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.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) American Business Executive

Success action is cumulative in its results.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American Teacher, Writer, Philosopher

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) (1915–77) American Columnist, Author

For many are called, but few are chosen.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) British Historian

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson (b.1952) American Activist, Author, Lecturer

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director

We fall forward to succeed.
Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson

Success is not something you get out of what you do.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938) Russian Actor, Theater Personality

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams (1911–83) American Playwright

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) English Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

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—persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) Scottish-born American Inventor, Engineer, Academic

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.
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If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Catherine Ponder (b.1927) American Clergywoman

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.
Dwight Morrow (1873–1931) American Businessman, Diplomat

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