Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.
Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state ...
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
