Quotes on failure 4

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George Burns

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham Maslow

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Richard Branson

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Davy Crockett

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm


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

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

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

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

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee

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

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

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams

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

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J. Paul Getty

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley