Failure Quotes
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
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
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 guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
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
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
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
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
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.Max Beerbohm
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
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 is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
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
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
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
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
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
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
