Failure Quotes

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Gordon Parks

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

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Louise Nevelson

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Minna Thomas Antrim

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambera

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 is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Oswald Chambers

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

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

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

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

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

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

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.

Andy Anderson

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Unknown

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Daniel Webste

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.

Rod Hughes

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

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

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

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

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