Failure Quotes
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
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
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
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.George Burns
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
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.George E. Woodberry
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
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
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 the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.Henry Ford
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
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 main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
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
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
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
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.Napoleon Hill
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
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
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
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
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.Philip Caldwell
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
