Failure Quotes
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
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 honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.George Burns
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
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
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
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Helle
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
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 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
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
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
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
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
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.Orison Swett Marden
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
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
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
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 blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
