Failure Quotes

Richard r. grant - the wisest person is not the one who has the...
George burns - i honestly think it is better to be a failure at...
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Chinese
Norman vincent peale - any fact facing us is not as important as our...
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
Andy Anderson
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx
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
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 is better to succeed with success than failure.
George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
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
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
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
William S. Gilbert
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Anon.
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
Corrine Dewlow
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - - An impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
John Fowles, The Magus
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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 comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharal Nehru
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)
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Zigla
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
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
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.
Rod Hughes
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Dottie Walters
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
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 simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
Richard Hofstadte