Failure Quotes

If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

A failure is only a step on the way to your success.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

You expect success, you respect failure.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

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

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.