Failure Quotes
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
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
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.Groucho Marx
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
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
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
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
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
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
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
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.George Burns
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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 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
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
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
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
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
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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 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
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
