Failure Quotes
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
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
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.George E. Woodberry
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
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
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
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)
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
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
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
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
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
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
