Napoleon Hill Quotes

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.