Failure Quotes

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

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

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

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

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

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

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Orison Swett Marden

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Faulkne

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Corrine Dewlow

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

We are all failures - - At least, the best of us are.

James Barrie

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams