Failure Quotes
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
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
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
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
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
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
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)
