Failure Quotes

Napoleon hill - the majority of men meet with failure because of...
Norman cousins - the main failure of education is that it has not...
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Richard r. grant - the wisest person is not the one who has the...
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.
Rod Hughes
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Watley
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Zigla
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
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
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.
Josh Traege
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
Joseph Sugarman
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Unknown
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Chinese
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
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
Corrine Dewlow
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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 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 Helle
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharal Nehru
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
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
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
May Sarton
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webste