Failure Quotes
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
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
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man.Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - - An impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.John Fowles, The Magus
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Denis Watley
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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
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
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
