Failure Quotes

John fowles, the magus - i was too green to know that all cynicism masks a...
Jules renard - failure is not the only punishment for laziness;...
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
Rudyard kipling - we have forty million reasons for failure, but...
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
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Unknown
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Chinese
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Dottie Walters
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
Louise Nevelson
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Gerald N. Weiskott
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Thomas Antrim
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov
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
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
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.
Tim McMahon
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Watley
Haste in every business brings failures.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
William S. Gilbert
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
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Zigla
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisne
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