Failure Quotes

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Daniel Webste

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

J. B. S. Haldane

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Zigla

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.

Author Unknown

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George Stanley McGovern

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.

James Barrie

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard R. Grant

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Max Beerbohm

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Author Unknown

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Flower A. Newhouse

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Hoshang N. Akhta

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.

Tim McMahon

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkne

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.

Rod Hughes

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Michael J. Gel