A Quote by Alan Price

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Alan Price

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Alan Price
American - Musician
Born: April 19, 1942

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

Alexander Nix

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

J. K. Rowling

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

Fran Tarkenton

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

Robert Bly

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

J. K. Rowling

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

Alec Guinness

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Galeazzo Ciano

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Galeazzo Ciano

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

Anushka Shetty

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Richard Branson

Success has many fathers, failure many sons.

Ryan Ross

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

John F. Kennedy

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.