Failure Quotes
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
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
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
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 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
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
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
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 is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
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
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Helle
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
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 the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
