„Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.“

„Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.“

—  LeBron James American basketball player 1984

„If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.“

—  Dan Quayle American politician, lawyer 1947

Attributed to a speech in Phoenix, Arizona to the Phoenix Republican Forum (23 March 1990), quoted in Esquire (August 1992)
Attributed

„If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.“

—  Tom Watson American businessman 1874 - 1956

Attributed to Watson in: Roger von Oech (1982), A Whack on the Side of the Head and Industrial participation (1987) Nr 594-603. p. 262.

„I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to "succeed" — and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940

Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

„The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.“

—  Saul D. Alinsky American community organizer and writer 1909 - 1972

Zdroj: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 34

„If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.“

—  Quentin Crisp writer, Actor 1908 - 1999

Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

„It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.“

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, kniha Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

„My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.“

—  Tara Westover American historian and author 1986

Educated (2018)

„Their strength's eternal in their sight,
They overtake the deer in flight,
And in their arrogance they smite;
But I am sage, if they are strong:
Man's love is transient as his death is long.“

—  Vita Sackville-West English writer and gardener 1892 - 1962

"The Greater Cats"
Kings Daughter (1929)

„I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.“

—  James Frey, kniha A Million Little Pieces

Zdroj: A Million Little Pieces

„I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.“

—  Sarah Dessen American writer 1970

Someone Like You (1998)

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

—  Paulo Coelho, kniha Alchymista

Zdroj: The Alchemist

„I look at Hank and he nods and I nod and for a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.“

—  James Frey, kniha A Million Little Pieces

page 43
A Million Little Pieces (2003)

„She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to“

—  Ann Brashares, kniha Sisterhood Everlasting

Zdroj: Sisterhood Everlasting

„In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.“

—  Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937

„Is the proposed operation likely to succeed?
What might be the consequences of failure?
Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies?“

—  Chester W. Nimitz United States Navy fleet admiral 1885 - 1966

"Three favorite rules of thumb" Nimitz had printed on a card he kept on his desk, as quoted in LIFE magazine (10 July 1944)

„Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.“

—  Natalie Goldberg American writer 1948

Zdroj: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

„Revolt against a tyrant is legitimate; it can succeed. Revolt against human nature is doomed to failure.“

—  André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving

„Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.“

—  Christopher Pike, kniha The Last Vampire

Zdroj: The Last Vampire