Failure Quotes

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.

Tim McMahon

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

Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

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

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Oswald Chambers

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

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Faulkne

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

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Minna Thomas Antrim

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George Stanley McGovern

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

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

Every failure is a step to success...

William Whewell

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Bruce Lee

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, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.

James Barrie

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane

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

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 has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Gerald N. Weiskott

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

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple