Failure Quotes
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.Lao Tzu
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
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
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
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
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
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
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
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)
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
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
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.Herbert B. Swope
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
