Failure Quotes

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

Anonymous

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Gerald N. Weiskott

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Unknown

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

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

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

Denis Watley

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

Thomas Alva Edison

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George Stanley McGovern

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Flower A. Newhouse

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

Herbert B. Swope

Failure is a path, not a destination.

Robert Logan