Failure Quotes
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
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 to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
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 always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.Michael J. Gel
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
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
Far better it 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 nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
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 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
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
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
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
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
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
