Failure Quotes
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
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
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
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
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
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)
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.Mary Pickford
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
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
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
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
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
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
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
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
