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
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.George E. Woodberry
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
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
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
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 Edison
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.Tim McMahon
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
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Helle
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
