Mark McCormack Quotes

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only failure is not trying.

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Live win, dare fail.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.