Failure Quotes
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
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
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
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
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
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
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
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
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
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
