Failure Is Success In Progress Quotes & Sayings

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way. — Star Jones

Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity. — Kim Holden

For to-day I take or give;
For to-day I drink and live;
For to-day I beg or borrow;
Who knows about the silent morrow? — Lew Wallace

Nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?' — Walker Evans

The key to success is having no qualms about failure. — Richelle E. Goodrich

FAIL UP. If something doesn't go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back! — Beth Ramsay

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due. — Ian Fleming

The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. — Sam Vaknin

The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over
this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success. — Simone De Beauvoir

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. — Joanne Harris

Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein

The "No Excuses" Mindset is an investment in yourself, allowing you to turn your excuses for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of recourses for success. — Farshad Asl

We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and pathetic? This absence of social sympathy for women's ambitions to marry is all the more striking because the social world has cared so deeply about virtually every other aspect of these privileged young women's inner and outer lives. ( ... ) The achievement of a good marriage is the one area of life where the most privileged, accomplished, and high achieving young women in society face a loss of support and sympathy for their ambitions and where the social expectations are for disappointment and failure, not success. — Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. — Taylor Swift

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated. — Fred Lowe Soper

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success. — Farshad Asl

It is not what we feel that gets us in to trouble. It is how we express how we feel that causes conflict. — DeBorrah K. Ogans

Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness. — Ramana Maharshi

It is the nature of stupid people to hide their perplexity and attack what they cannot grasp. — John Gardner

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating. — Henry Johnson Jr

You will find a job, if you are willing to work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress ... Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws ... It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success - in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments. — Noam Chomsky

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress. — Toni Sorenson