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