Failure Quotes

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharal Nehru

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

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

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

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

Henry Ford

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

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

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

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

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

Every failure is a step to success...

William Whewell

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

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 stepping - Stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.

Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, [email protected] ca

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Anonymous

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

Daniel Webste

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Unknown

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Unknown

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Failure is a path, not a destination.

Robert Logan

Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.

Tim McMahon

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

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

Oswald Chambers

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

Humphrey Davy

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Bruce Lee

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

Herbert Kaufman

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

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale