Failure Quotes
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.May Sarton
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Denis Watley
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
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
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
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
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
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
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Christopher Morley
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.Mary Pickford
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take 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
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.Unknown
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.Rod Hughes
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.Gerald N. Weiskott
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Pete
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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
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 success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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 has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown