Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.
So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.
If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.
Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Failure is part of the process of success.
Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.
Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.
It's nice to say you have goals and that you want to win championships. But until you get thrown into the fire, you can't truly grasp what it takes to accomplish those goals.
Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that line. Don't let that discourage you. Because failure is part of the process ... make the necessary adjustments and you can be successful at whatever you do.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.
Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
