Failure Quotes

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

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Unknown

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Unknown

Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carve

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Michael J. Gel

Far better 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Laurence J. Pete

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

Herbert B. Swope

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisne