Failure Quotes

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Every failure is a step to success...

William Whewell

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

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

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

Failure is a path, not a destination.

Robert Logan

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Alva Edison

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen

Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.

Tim McMahon

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

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

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

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