Failure Quotes
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
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
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
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
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)
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
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
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
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
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.Philip Caldwell
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
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
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
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
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
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
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
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
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
