Failure Quotes
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
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
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take 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
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
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
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
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
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
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
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
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
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
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
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
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
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne