Failure Quotes

Unknown - success has many fathers, but failure is an...
John fowles, the magus - i was too green to know that all cynicism masks a...
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Oprah winfrey - think like a queen. a queen is not afraid to...
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphrey Davy
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carve
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 wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
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
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Zigla
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
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
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Failure is a path, not a destination.
Robert Logan
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Gordon Parks
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
It is better to succeed with success than failure.
George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
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
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
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Unknown
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharal Nehru
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
Edgar Albert Guest