Failure Quotes
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
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
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
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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)
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Denis Watley
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
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.Michael J. Gel
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - - An impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.John Fowles, The Magus
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
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 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
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
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
