Failure Quotes

W. somerset maugham - to bear failure with courage is the best proof of...
Flower a. newhouse - lack of will power has caused more failure than...
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
Louise nevelson - it is as hard to take success as it is failure....
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambera
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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
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
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Unknown
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Mike Ditka
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkne
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.
Tim McMahon
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
Haste in every business brings failures.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Gerald N. Weiskott
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Baudjuin
Far better 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
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
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
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 great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Chinese
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.
Josh Traege
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
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
George Crane
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
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.
James Barrie