Failure Quotes

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

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

Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

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

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Bruce Lee

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

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

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

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

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

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

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Flower A. Newhouse

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

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Earl Wilson