Failure Quotes
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
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
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
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
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
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
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
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
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.Tim McMahon
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
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
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
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
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
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
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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
