Failure Quotes

Elbert hubbard - optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - the...
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.
Josh Traege
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisne
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Shinn
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison
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
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
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Watkins Harpe
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.
Rod Hughes
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown
Andy anderson - the origin of every excuse is the failure to do...
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Gordon Parks
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Gerald N. Weiskott
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill
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
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
Bruce Lee
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
Louise Nevelson
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Mike Ditka
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
Richard R. Grant
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
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
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.
Tim McMahon
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
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