Failure Quotes
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
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
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.Joyce
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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
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
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
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
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
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
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
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
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.George E. Woodberry
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
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
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
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
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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
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
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
