Failure Quotes
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.James Allen
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
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
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
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
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 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
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
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
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
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
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
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
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
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
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
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
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
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
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
