Failure Quotes
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
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
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
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
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
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)
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
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
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
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.Joyce
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
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
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
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
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 is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
