Failure Quotes

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

Humphrey Davy

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

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

Minna Thomas Antrim

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkne

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

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

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

Failure is a path, not a destination.

Robert Logan

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

Unknown

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 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, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

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

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

Herbert Kaufman

Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carve

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

Henry Ford