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Success And Failure Quotes (page 3)

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay. With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before. John Wooden
This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but... David Foster Wallace
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? R. Buckminster Fuller
People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied the world's dreams, helped to make sense of the great human problems. Just as the dreams of individuals exist to give subconscious support to their conscious lives, so do myths serve as society's dreams. They uncover the dark, hidden places where mysteries dwell and can turn to nightmare if left untended. They make sense of injustice in archetypal... Charles de Lint
His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion. Julian Barnes
Alan Hansen quote: "The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and..."
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. Alan Hansen
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. Denis Waitley
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. Sylvester Stallone
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. Jared Diamond
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability. Alain de Botton
Margaret Drabble quote: "Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly..."
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. Margaret Drabble
Alan Price quote: "The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand..."
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. Alan Price
Colin R. Davis quote: "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly..."
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. Napolean Hill
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. E. O. Wilson

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