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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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe
1900 — 1938

If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe
1900 — 1938

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr
1885 — 1962

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862

Nothing succeeds like success.

Alexandre Dumas
1802 — 1870

Success is the reward for anyone who looks for trouble.

Walter Winchell
1897 — 1972

Success doesn’t come to the sleeper.

German Proverb

When asked who he considered the greatest generals:

The victors.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 — 1821

No one ever says “It’s only a game” when their team is winning.

George Carlin
1937 — 2008

Trying is the first step toward failure.

“The Simpsons”

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

Seneca
104? B.C. — 1065

The only safety for the defeated is to expect no safety.

Virgil
70 — 19

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

Fun and failure both start out the same way.

“Arrested Development”

Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Carrot Top
1967 —     

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