Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Success and Failure.

The repository contains 138 quotes in the category “Success and Failure.”
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Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison
1847 — 1931

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.

Unknown

Success comes in cans; failure comes in can’ts.

Unknown

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874 — 1965

There is a close correlation between getting up in the morning and getting up in the world.

Ron Dentinger

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

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965

Delay is preferable to error.

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant
1946 —     

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca
104? B.C. — 1065

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Khalil Gibran
1883 — 1931

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Cicero
106 A.D. — 43

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navrátilová
1956 —     

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948

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