Failure Quotes

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Malcolm X

Rudyard Kipling

Agatha Christie

Fidel Castro

Chester W. Nimitz

Herman Melville

Paramahansa Yogananda

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes — they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.

Agatha Christie

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

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity which whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!

Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

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

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

William Whewell

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

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.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

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

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

Rosalind Russell

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

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.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Chester W. Nimitz

The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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 towards success.

Dorothea Brande