Quote: The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully. Author: Karl Albrecht American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Author: Thomas B. Aldrich 1836-1907, American Writer, Editor
Quote: To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Quote: You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. Author: Rocky Aoki
Quote: There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are. Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. Author: Steve Bartkowski American Football Player
Quote: We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive
Quote: I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. Author: Anne Baxter 1923-1985, American Actress
Quote: It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. Author: Anne Baxter 1923-1985, American Actress
Quote: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Author: Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. Author: Sir Max Beerbohm 1872-1956, British Actor
Quote: On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. Author: Arthur Bloch
Quote: My downfall raises me to infinite heights. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. Author: Amar Gopal Bose Indian-Born American Engineer, MIT Professor , Founder of Bose Corporation
Quote: Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. Author: Kenneth Boulding
Quote: A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: To win you've got to stay in the game. Author: Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''
Quote: You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Failure is an event, never a person. Author: William D. Brown
Quote: Failure is the tuition you pay for success. Author: Walter Brunell
Quote: Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. Author: Frank Burford
Quote: Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. Author: George Washington Carver 1864-1943, American Scientist
Quote: The only people who never fail are those who never try. Author: Ilka Chase 1905-, American Author, Actor
Quote: Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. Author: J. Richard Clarke
Quote: A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. Author: Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929, French Statesman
Quote: You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. Author: Edwin Louis Cole
Quote: A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace. Author: E. V. Cooke
Quote: To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. Author: Francis Crawford
Quote: Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. Author: Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977, American Author, Critic
Quote: The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. Author: Sir Humphrey Davy 1778-1829, British Chemist
Quote: You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Author: Walt Disney 1901-1966, American Artist, Film Producer
Quote: Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. Author: Edward Dowden 1843-1913, Irish Critic
Quote: I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. Author: Ted W. Engstrom American Religion and Social Leader
Quote: All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. Author: William Faulkner 1897-1962, American Novelist
Quote: No man is a failure who is enjoying life. Author: William Feather 1888-18, American Writer, Businessman
Quote: If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. Author: Francois FTNelon 1651-1715, French Writer
Quote: Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Author: Ella Fitzgerald American singer
Quote: A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Author: Ferdinand Foch 1851-1929, French Field Marshal
Quote: Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life. Author: John W. Gardner 1912-, American Educator, Social Activist
Quote: He's no failure. He's not dead yet. Author: William Lloyd George
Quote: It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work. Author: Jerry Gillies American Author, Speaker
Quote: Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. Author: Charles J. Givens American Businessman, Author, Trainer
Quote: No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. Author: William E. Gladstone 1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman
Quote: The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving. Author: Roberto Goizueta American Business Executive, CEO of Coca-Cola Company
Quote: We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. Author: David Grayson 1870-1946, American Journalist and Writer
Quote: Failure too is a form of death... Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist
Quote: Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. Author: Thomas C. Haliburton 1796-1865, Canadian Jurist, Author
Quote: Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. Author: S. I. Hayakawa 1902-1992, Canadian Born American Senator, Educator
Quote: He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Author: Joseph Heller 1923-, American Author
Quote: Sometimes the best gain is to lose. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. Author: Robert S. Hillyer
Quote: Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on. Author: Tom Hobson
Quote: There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: Success is 99 percent failure. Author: Soichiro Honda Japanese Industrialist, Founder of Honda Motor Corporation
Quote: I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. Author: Tom Hopkins American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. Author: Tom Hopkins American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator
Quote: Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds. Author: Lloyd Jones
Quote: Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Author: Herbert Kaufman
Quote: Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Author: Robert F. Kennedy 1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator
Quote: Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: 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. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. Author: Michael Korda 1919-, American publisher
Quote: It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail, Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. Author: Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''
Quote: Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. Author: Lewis E. Lawes
Quote: My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life. Author: Duchess Loelia
Quote: However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Author: Cassius Longinus
Quote: Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success. Author: Erwin W. Lutzer American Minister
Quote: You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose. Author: Charles Lynch
Quote: Many a man never fails because he never tries. Author: Norman Macewan
Quote: Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Author: Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author
Quote: No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. Author: Greil Marcus 1945-, American Rock Journalist
Quote: Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them. Author: Dan Mckinnon
Quote: He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Author: Herman Melville 1819-1891, American Author
Quote: We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Author: Thomas Merton 1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet
Quote: He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. Author: Arthur Miller 1915-, American Dramatist
Quote: The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. Author: Joaquin Miller 1839-1913, American Poet
Quote: Failure is not an option. Author: Apollo 13 Movie
Quote: Losing is a part of winning. Author: Dick Munro
Quote: Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman
Quote: Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty. Author: Al Neuharth American publisher, Founder, USA Today
Quote: Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Quote: I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. Author: George S. Patton 1885-1945, American Army General during World War II
Quote: Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. Author: H. Ross Perot 1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS
Quote: The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed. Author: Wilferd A. Peterson
Quote: What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. Author: Wendell Phillips 1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator
Quote: The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. Author: Francis Picabia 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet
Quote: Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. Author: Rick Pitino American College Basketball Coach
Quote: To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. Author: Dr. Porsche
Quote: When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick. Author: Proverb
Quote: Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. Author: African Proverb Sayings of African Origin
Quote: Everyone pushes a falling fence. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. Author: Turkish Proverb Sayings of Turkish Origin
Quote: If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win Author: Walter Reuther
Quote: Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. Author: Tony Richardson 1928-1991, British Stage and Film Director
Quote: Some defeats are only installments to victory. Author: Jacob Riis
Quote: If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Quote: Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. Author: Knute Rockne 1888-1931, Norwegian-born American Football Coach
Quote: Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: You always pass failure on the way to success. Author: Mickey Rooney American Actor
Quote: All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
Quote: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA
Quote: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: Men do not fail; they give up trying. Author: Elihu Root 1845-1937, American Statesman
Quote: Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Author: Babe Ruth 1895-1948, American Baseball Player
Quote: Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. Author: John Charles Salak
Quote: Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: Turn your scars into stars Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Quote: Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. Author: Sri Swami Sivananda 1887-, Indian Physician, Sage
Quote: There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Author: Sri Swami Sivananda 1887-, Indian Physician, Sage
Quote: 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. Author: B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner 1904-1990, American Psychologist
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. Author: Bishop Robert South 1634-1716, British Clergyman
Quote: It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. Author: Ben Stein American Professor, Writer
Quote: If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. Author: Richard Martin Stern
Quote: Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. Author: J. August Strindberg 1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
Quote: The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. Author: William Strong
Quote: Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. Author: Joseph Sugarman American Businessman
Quote: The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. Author: Frank Swinnerton
Quote: I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody. Author: Herbert B. Swope 1882-1958, American Journalist
Quote: Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Failure is the path of least persistence Author: Source Unknown
Quote: From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you've never failed you've never tried. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Past failures are guideposts to success. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: People don't fail, they give up Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Success is the proper utilization of failure. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When you fall, don't get up empty handed Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. Author: David Viscott American Author, Speaker, Trainer
Quote: To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. Author: David Viscott American Author, Speaker, Trainer
Quote: 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. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: The only true failure lies in failure to start. Author: Harold Blake Walker
Quote: The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure. Author: Gerald. N. Weiskott
Quote: Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the ''impossible,'' we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish. Author: Dr. C. E. Welch American Businessman, Founder of Welch's Grape Juice
Quote: He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Author: Richard Whately 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer
Quote: Every failure is a step to success. Author: William Whewell 1794-1866, British Scholar
Quote: Thought is born of failure. Author: Lancelot Law Whyte 1896-1972, Scottish Physicist
Quote: Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life. Author: A.L. Williams American Football Coach, Businessman, Author, Speaker
Quote: If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned. Author: Oprah Winfrey 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author
Quote: Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Author: Oprah Winfrey 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author
Quote: Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. Author: John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Author: Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Author, Lecturer
Quote: Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: Failure is an event, never a person. Author: William D. Brown
Quote: The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. Author: William Strong
Quote: If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quote: I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Author: Thomas Edison
Quote: I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: There is no failure except in no longer trying. Author: Elbert Hubbard
Quote: Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down> Author: Mary Pickford
Quote: Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Author: Samuel Beckett
Quote: Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Author: Robert Schuller
Quote: One fails forward toward success. Author: Charles F. Kettering
Quote: A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. Author: Elmer G. Letterman
Quote: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote: They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Author: Thomas Edison
Quote: There are defeats more triumphant than victories. Author: Michel de Montaigne
Quote: Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. Author: Charles Horton Cooley
Quote: A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. Author: Elbert Hubbard
Quote: No man is a failure who is enjoying life. Author: William Feather
Quote: Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Author: Henry Ford
Quote: Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. Author: George Horace Lorimer
Quote: You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. Author: George Cukor
Quote: There is no failure. Only feedback. Author: Robert Allen
Quote: There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. Author: Max Beerbohm
Quote: You always pass failure on your way to success. Author: Mickey Rooney
Quote: Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. Author: Kenneth Boudling
Quote: Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote: It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. Author: Anonymous
Quote: If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. Author: Lloyd Jones
Quote: The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide. Author: James Baldwin
Quote: We are all failures--at least, all the best of us are. Author: J. M. Barrie
Quote: The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. Author: Heywood Broun
Quote: Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Author: Flaubert
Quote: There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Author: Thomas Henry Huxley