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

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

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

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

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

A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

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.

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

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Dejan Stojanovic

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

Chester W. Nimitz

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Carter G. Woodson

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

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

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

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.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.