Failure Quotes
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)
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.Herbert B. Swope
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
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
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 have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.Bruce Lee
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
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
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
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - - An impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.John Fowles, The Magus
Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.Dottie Walters
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Jawaharal Nehru
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
