Failure Quotes
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
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
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
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
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
Far better it 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 nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
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
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
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
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
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
