Quotes by American Authors - Page 179

One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Arther Bloch
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Benjamin Lipson
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Vic Braden
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Bovee
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
Gisela Richter
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.
Elbert Hubbard
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W Clement Stone
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.
Bill W.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
John McEnroe
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.
Charles F. Kettering
There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
Marian Wright Edelman
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.
Edith Johnson
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
James Reston
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
Richard R. Grant
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Woody Hayes
If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Chris Evert Lloyd
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Charles Horton Cooley
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Paul Dickson
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William M. Marston
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.
Marjorie Holmes
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.
Louis Binstock
You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
They fail and they alone who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Hugh Prather
Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
Madeleine Kunin
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley Hufstedler
If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
Woody Allen
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
Cybil Shepherd
Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Jane Pauley