Failure Quotes
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.Toni Cade Bambera
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
We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.James Barrie
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
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Thomas Alva Edison
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Sir Winston Churchill
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
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
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
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.Tim McMahon
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
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
Failure is a path, not a destination.Robert Logan
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
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
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 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
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
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
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.Hoshang N. Akhta
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
