Failures Quotes

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy

If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

Margaret Collier Graham

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

It is not easy but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes the better.

Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

Sylvester Stallone

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Katherine Graham

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

Benjamin Lipson

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

John Cage

Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.

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

George Washington Carver

One who fears failure limits his activities.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

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

Rudyard Kipling

How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

Orison Swett Marden

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.

John L. Beckley

Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.

Anonymous

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

James Northcote

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

Brendan Francis

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.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

People fail forward to success.

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

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know" "I didn't think" and "I didn't care."

Henry H. Buckley

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Bovee

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

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Brendan Francis

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

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

Flower A. Newhouse

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Sir Boyle Roche

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

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

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.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

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