Failure Quotes
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time 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)
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.Bill Wulf
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
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
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
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
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
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
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
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
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
