Failure Quotes

There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Laurence J. Pete

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

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

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

Herbert B. Swope

Every failure is a step to success...

William Whewell

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

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

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

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Groucho Marx

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

Rod Hughes

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

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

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Orison Swett Marden

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

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Hoshang N. Akhta

There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Bill Wulf

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Bruce Lee

Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carve

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Faulkne

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell