Failure Quotes
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 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
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.Lao Tzu
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
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
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
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
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
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
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
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
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
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.Napoleon Hill
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
