Failure Quotes
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
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
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 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
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.George E. Woodberry
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.Tim McMahon
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
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
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
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
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
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
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
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
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
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
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
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
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
