Failure Quotes: Embracing Life's Lessons (Page 2)

"There is no failure except in no longer trying"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"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"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure"

Confucius, Philosopher

"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"

Og Mandino, Author

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough"

Og Mandino, Author

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"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"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"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"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community"

H.G. Wells, Author

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"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"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best"

George Eliot, Author

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"

George Eliot, Author

"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"

George Eliot, Author

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure"

George Eliot, Author

"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"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being"

Doug Coupland, Author

"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"

Doug Coupland, Author

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure"

Doug Coupland, Author

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"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"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"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"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows"

Buddha, Leader

"Learn to love failure"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed"

Jordan Belfort, Author

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

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"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"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results"

William James, Philosopher

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

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