Failure Quotes

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
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
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.
Josh Traege
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
Corrine Dewlow
Unknown - success has many fathers, but failure is an...
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Gerald N. Weiskott
Edwin whipple - the saddest failures in life are those that come...
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
Joseph Sugarman
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorthea Bragg
Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisne
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Watley
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
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
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
Oswald chambers - never let the sense of past failure defeat your...
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Thomas Antrim
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
May Sarton
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison
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
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Faulkne
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
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
Success is never final, but failure can be.
Bill Parcells
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
Andy Anderson
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 is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
The love of nature is consolation against failure.
Berthe Morisot
Every failure is a step to success...
William Whewell