Failure Quotes

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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

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

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Author Unknown

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Unknown

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping - Stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Anon.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Max Beerbohm

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisne

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

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

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

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

Anton Chekhov

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Minna Thomas Antrim

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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

George E. Woodberry

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Faulkne

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Louise Nevelson

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Laurence J. Pete

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Bruce Lee

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 greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Gerald N. Weiskott

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

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 quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

Josh Traege