"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.“


-Maxwell Maltz

posted in failure


Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today."

-Maxwell Maltz

successView Quote
"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."

-Maxwell Maltz

movingonView Quote
"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."

-Maxwell Maltz

imaginationView Quote
"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

-Maxwell Maltz

happinessView Quote
"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."

-Maxwell Maltz

happinessView Quote
"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."

-Maxwell Maltz

courageView Quote

More Quotes About failure

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"

-Aldrich Ames

failureView Quote
"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."

-Craig Breedlove

failureView Quote
"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."

-Tony Richardson

failureView Quote
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

-Edward Eggleston

failureView Quote
"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."

-Arthur C. Danto

failureView Quote
"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."

-Michael Savage

failureView Quote