Failure Quotes
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 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
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
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 great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Chinese
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
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
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
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
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.Richard R. Grant
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
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
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
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
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
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
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
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
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
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
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
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
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
