Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

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

Without failure there is no achievement.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

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.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

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

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

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