Failure Quotes

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

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)

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese

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

We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.

James Barrie

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambera

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

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

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

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Zigla

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.

Rod Hughes

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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 more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Daniel Webste

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Gordon Parks

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Groucho Marx

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

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

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

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Anon.

Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.

Tim McMahon

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

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

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

J. B. S. Haldane