Failure Quotes
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A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. (Quote by - Elmer G. Letterman)
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. (Quote by - James Allen)
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Quote by - Mary Pickford)
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." (Quote by - S.I. Hayakawa)
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. (Quote by - Theodor Herzl)
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. (Quote by - Michael Levine)
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. (Quote by - Amy Tan)
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last. (Quote by - Robert William Service)
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
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. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. (Quote by - Robert Half)
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. (Quote by - Laurence Shames)
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. (Quote by - Lewis E. Lawes)
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. (Quote by - Soichiro Honda)
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
Successes have many fathers, failures have none. (Quote by - Philip Caldwell)
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. (Quote by - Alberto Giacometti)
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Quote by - Mary Pickford)
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care; No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand-- Contempt is Failure's share! (Quote by - G.L. Scarborough)
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. (Quote by - Rosalind Russell)
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. (Quote by - Wallace Stegner)
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. (Quote by - Koichi Tanaka)
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners encountered heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won by their defeats. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
As an Englander, I must admit it is true - if a Welshman achieves success he is heralded as a britishh triumph, should he lose then he is very much a Welsh failure. (Quote by - Stan Stevens)
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some (Quote by - John Keats)
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Failure is a word unknown to me. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. (Quote by - William Feather)
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. (Quote by - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. (Quote by - James Taylor)
There is always time for failure. (Quote by - John Mortimer)
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Failure is success if we learn from it. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. (Quote by - Ashley Montagu)
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. (Quote by - Randy K. Milholland)
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. (Quote by - Anne Sullivan)
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. (Quote by - Roger Von Oech)
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. (Quote by - Gustav Mahler)
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
One fails forward toward success. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. (Quote by - John Wooden)
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. (Quote by - Tom Krause)
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing. (Quote by - Thomas De Quincey)
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. (Quote by - William Strong)
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. (Quote by - Buddha)
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. (Quote by - Frances Watkins Harper)
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything. (Quote by - Raymond Blanc)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. (Quote by - Joseph Barbera)
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. (Quote by - Hildegard Knef)
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. (Quote by - George Soros)
Failure is the tuition you pay for success. (Quote by - Walter Brunell)
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. (Quote by - Joyce Brothers)
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. (Quote by - Ralph Ellison)
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? (Quote by - Chester W. Nimitz)
Every failure is a step to success. (Quote by - William Whewell)
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. (Quote by - Elizabeth Drew)
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. (Quote by - Serj Tankian)
Pain is temporary, Failure lasts for ever. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
It is now up to the police to decide whether these donations were part of a conspiracy or an administrative failure. (Quote by - Vince Cable)
If you try to do your best there is no failure. (Quote by - Mike Farrell)
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed (Quote by - Gustav Mahler)
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. (Quote by - John Hersey)
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Act as if it were impossible to fail. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. (Quote by - Carl Levin)
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? (Quote by - Aldrich Ames)
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. (Quote by - Dave Matthews)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. (Quote by - Mike Ditka)
I believe only in art and failure. (Quote by - Jane Rule)
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. (Quote by - Lloyd Jones)
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. (Quote by - Walter Reuther)
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate (Quote by - George F. Burns)
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. (Quote by - Herbert B. Swope)
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Quote by - Truman Capote)
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Quote by - Paramahansa Yogananda)
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. (Quote by - J. Paul Getty)
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. (Quote by - Elaine Maxwell)
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
The only risk of failure is promotion. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (Quote by - William M. Winans)
You have to win the title here. The fans will not accept failure. If you lose, everybody cries for seven days; if you win, they carry you on their hands (Quote by - Mateja Kezman)
When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair (Quote by - George Osborne)
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word. (Quote by - Roger Daltrey)
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. (Quote by - Swami Sivananda)
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. (Quote by - Orlando Bloom)
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. (Quote by - Don Shula)
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account. (Quote by - Richard R. Grant)
We are all failures – at least the best of us are. (Quote by - J M Barrie)
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. (Quote by - Sven Goran Eriksson)
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. (Quote by - Joseph Barber Lightfoot)
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure. (Quote by - Leo F. Buscaglia)
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. (Quote by - Ron Dellums)
You always pass failure on the way to success. (Quote by - Mickey Rooney)
You've got to take the bitter with the sour. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. (Quote by - William James)
My reputation grows with every failure. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. (Quote by - Arthur C. Danto)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Quote by - Herbert Kaufman)
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Success is 99 percent failure. (Quote by - Soichiro Honda)
Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure. (Quote by - Christopher Gist)
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. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
The only real failure in life is one not learned from. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. (Quote by - James Dale Davidson)
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
The fact is that we're too old to make each other miserable, and that's a good thing, not a bad thing, so don't take your failure to make the list personally. (Quote by - Nick Hornby)
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. (Quote by - Charlotte Whitton)
Translation is the art of failure. (Quote by - Umberto Eco)
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue. (Quote by - Rowan Williams)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
No garden is without its weeds. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. (Quote by - Confucius)
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. (Quote by - Sting)
All honor to him who shall win the prize, The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. (Quote by - Joaquin Miller)
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. (Quote by - John Osborne)
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. (Quote by - James Lane Allen)
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Quote by - Mary Pickford)
We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. (Quote by - George Eliot)
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. (Quote by - Tom Watson)
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. (Quote by - Thomas Babington)
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? (Quote by - Charlie Sheen)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. (Quote by - Chanakya)
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. (Quote by - George Burns)
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
He beat the bushes without taking the birds. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)
Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.--Richard M. Nixon)
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. (Quote by - John Keats)
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
A vice is a failure of desire. (Quote by - Gerald Stanley Lee)
Failure is always an option. (Quote by - Adam Savage)
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance. (Quote by - James Cash Penney)
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. (Quote by - John Milton)
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
My life has been nothing but a failure. (Quote by - Claude Monet)
The best way out is always through. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. (Quote by - Ben Stiller)
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. (Quote by - Kenneth Boudling)
Failure has gone to his head. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. (Quote by - George Cukor)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void. (Quote by - Folashade' Ayanwale)
Failure is an event, never a person. (Quote by - William D. Brown)
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. (Quote by - Erik Erikson)
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. (Quote by - Tony Robbins)
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. (Quote by - Corita Kent)
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
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. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. (Quote by - John Charles Salak)
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. (Quote by - Colin R. Davis)
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. (Quote by - Robert Schuller)
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that. (Quote by - Carly Fiorina)
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. (Quote by - Amar Gopal Bose)
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. (Quote by - Jimmy Connors)
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. (Quote by - Rick Pitino)
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton)
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. (Quote by - Roger Babson)
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. (Quote by - Sylvester Stallone)
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. (Quote by - Tony Robbins)
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. (Quote by - John H. Johnson)
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. (Quote by - Knute Rockne)
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. (Quote by - James Lane Allen)
Success and failure are equally disastrous. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success. (Quote by - Eddie Bell)
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating (Quote by - Sophocles)
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks." (Quote by - Florence Scovel Shinn)
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. (Quote by - Bryan Ferry)
For people in Brazil, failure in the World Cup was not an option. But we failed. (Quote by - Ronaldinho)
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There are defeats more triumphant than victories. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. (Quote by - Gordon Parks)
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. (Quote by - May Sarton)
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Failure is unfortunately as common as success. (Quote by - Sanjay Kumar)
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. (Quote by - Burt Rutan)
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. (Quote by - George Horace Lorimer)
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)
He that is down can fall no lower. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Not failure, but low aim is sin. (Quote by - Benjamin E. Mays)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
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 to success. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A life which does not go into action is a failure. (Quote by - Arnold J. Toynbee)
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. (Quote by - Mia Hamm)
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first. (Quote by - Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Failed the bright promise of your early day? (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. (Quote by - Og Mandino)
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. (Quote by - Arsene Wenger)
You won't skid if you stay in a rut. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. (Quote by - Ross Perot)
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. (Quote by - Abraham Joshua Heschel)
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
Failure too is a form of death. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
One failure is worth seven and a half successes. (Quote by - Eli Khamarov)
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. (Quote by - Alan Rickman)
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. (Quote by - Harvey Fierstein)
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. (Quote by - Hideki Tojo)
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. (Quote by - Gary Ryan Blair)
War remains the decisive human failure. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. (Quote by - Amy Tan)
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. (Quote by - Florence Scovel Shinn)
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. (Quote by - Mike Murdock)
Success is never final, but failure can be. (Quote by - Bill Parcells)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. (Quote by - Orlando Bloom)
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. (Quote by - George Eliot)
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. (Quote by - Alvin Adams)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Quote by - Confucius)
Oxford Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it. (Quote by - Lisa Marie Presley)
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. (Quote by - Garry Shandling)
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. (Quote by - Roger Babson)
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. (Quote by - Morihei Ueshiba)
There is no failure. Only feedback. (Quote by - Robert Allen)
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. (Quote by - Jack Kerouac)
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. (Quote by - Og Mandino)
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. (Quote by - Amy Sedaris)
With failure, you just try again. (Quote by - Judd Nelson)
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. (Quote by - Sextus Propertius)
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. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. (Quote by - Davy Crockett)
A minute's success pays the failure of years. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. (Quote by - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. (Quote by - George Burns)
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. (Quote by - B. F. Skinner)
