Francis Picabia Quotes

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

As much as you may be sitting in the top five or the top 10, sometimes you just don't get that chance to get to the top.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

Criticism is the price of ambition.

Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots.

The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

My fear is we're not teaching competition. We're shielding people from it. For the longest time children, you know, nobody's allowed to win anything, participation trophies. But when you get to real life and if you really want to amount to something, when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

There is always room at the top.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream as high as the skies! Because if you fell, you will fall among the stars!!