“There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible...”

“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

“Modest successes are better known as failures.”

Frederic Raphael (1931) British writer

“Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

“If you perceive yourself in a negative manner then success is next to impossible.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer

“Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“My response to Bernie Sanders' you know uh stories you know fairytales is that uh the failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.”

Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion

“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist