Failure Quotes
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.Groucho Marx
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
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
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take 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
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
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
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
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
