Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Failure has no friends.

Success is 99 percent failure.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Every failure is a step to success.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Success is failure turned inside out.

Every failure is a step to success...

Success has made failures of many men.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Failure is a success if we learn from it.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?;"Anonymous

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

How can you be a failure, when you've never tried anything? Andy Capp

You cannot have the success without the failures.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Your fortune stateth: If you sow your wild oats, hope for a crop failure.

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

A writer doesn't die of heart failure, but of typographical errors.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

Your fortune stateth: You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.