Failure Quotes
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.Philip Caldwell
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
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
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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
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
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
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
Far better 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Helle
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, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Denis Watley
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
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
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
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
