Failure Quotes
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
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 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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
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
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
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
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
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
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.George E. Woodberry
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
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
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
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
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
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
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
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)
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
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
