Failure Quotes
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
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
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
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
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
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
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, [email protected] ca
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.Tim McMahon
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
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
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)
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
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