Failure Quotes
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
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
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
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 more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
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
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
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
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
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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)
