Failure Quotes
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
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
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
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
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.Groucho Marx
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
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
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
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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
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
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
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
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
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.Ayn Rand
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
