Failure Quotes
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
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
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
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
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
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
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
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
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
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
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
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
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
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
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 only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
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
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)
