Failure Quotes
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.Andy Anderson
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)
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
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
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
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webste
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
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
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
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
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
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 failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.Gordon Parks
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.Groucho Marx
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
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
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
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
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
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.Bill Wulf
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
