Failure Quotes

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.

Rod Hughes

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

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Minna Thomas Antrim

We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.

James Barrie

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Oswald Chambers

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

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao Tzu

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Scott Adams

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.

Dorthea Bragg

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford