“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell
Category Archives: Failure
Success
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” –Babe Ruth
Failure
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw
Fear of Failure
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill
Fear of Failure
“Go back a little to leap further.” — John Clarke
Success and Failure
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” –Herbert Bayard Swope
Failure
“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.” –Chinese Proverb
Success
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Misfortune
When it rains on your parade
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow..” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton