Failure Quotes
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
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
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
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
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
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.Groucho Marx
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
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 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
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.Tim McMahon
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
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
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
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
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
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.Napoleon Hill
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
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
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
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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)
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
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
