Quote by Steve Jobs 2

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've

always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much

more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've

completely failed.
Steve Jobs

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew

more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer

and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to

everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've

ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
Steve Jobs

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right

now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
Steve Jobs

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life

and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not

there, but I'll always come back.
Steve Jobs

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart.

I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief

instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.
Steve Jobs

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you

find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains

and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was

spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're

led, and how much you get it.
Steve Jobs

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result

there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000

per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd

have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want

now.
Steve Jobs

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're

just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't

luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve Jobs

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are

why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for

and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.
Steve Jobs

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people

you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for

long.
Steve Jobs

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do

is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly

understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus'

success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years,

Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
Steve Jobs

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't

have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this

stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have

is time.
Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the

destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely

the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of

every minute of every hour of every day.
Steve Jobs

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's

who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And

if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
Steve Jobs

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do

all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more

efficient.
Steve Jobs

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We

make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big

choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or

failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something

to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a

pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going

to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal.

It works like magic.
Steve Jobs

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of

the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their

values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving

your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Quotes on Success

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields


If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan

Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

Quotes By Steve Jobs

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve Jobs

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
Steve Jobs

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve Jobs

And one more thing.
Steve Jobs

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Steve Jobs

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
Steve Jobs

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
Steve Jobs

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
Steve Jobs

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs

Quotes by Steve Jobs 4

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the  hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.
Steve Jobs

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve Jobs

Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's
hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free
intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our
life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
Steve Jobs

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve Jobs

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
Steve Jobs

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
Steve Jobs

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.
Steve Jobs

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it
eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
Steve Jobs

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
Steve Jobs

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Steve Jobs

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
Steve Jobs

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you
believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Quotes on Failure 5

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Gloria Swanson

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
Glenn Beck

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Carter G. Woodson

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman

Don't come home a failure.
Ty Cobb

Quotes by Steve Jobs 2

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
Steve Jobs

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little
innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Steve Jobs

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
Steve Jobs

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
Steve Jobs

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve Jobs

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
Steve Jobs

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
Steve Jobs

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined
company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
Steve Jobs

Quotes on failure

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. Rowling

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James A. Baldwin

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Henry Miller

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Steve Harvey

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

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

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford



Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Sylvester Stallone

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
Jennifer Lawrence

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
Jimmy Carr

Failure has gone to his head.
Wilson Mizner

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
LeBron James

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
Arthur C. Brooks

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner


It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
Florence Scovel Shinn

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Oriana Fallaci

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
George Allen

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
Mike Krzyzewski

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Mike Murdock

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich