Failure Quotes

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

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

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gerald N. Weiskott

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

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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 as hard to take success as it is failure.

Louise Nevelson

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.

Andy Anderson

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

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

Flower A. Newhouse

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

Chinese

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

J. B. S. Haldane

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard R. Grant

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

It is better to succeed with success than failure.

George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

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 a path, not a destination.

Robert Logan

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Zigla

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells