Famous Quotes on Failure

Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes.

QuoteWorld :: Success :: Failure Search in this category

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next >>
Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."	Hoshang N. Akhtar
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."	John Christian Bovee
"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."	Elbert Hubbard
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."	John Burroughs
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."	Georges Clemenceau
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."	Robert Browning
"A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind."	Richard Hofstadter
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."	Dr. Joyce
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."	Dorothea Broude
"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."	William Faulkner
"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."	Dorthea Bragg
"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."	Harold Loukes
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."	James Albert Michener
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."	Charles Franklin Kettering
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."	Douglas Couplan
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."	Frances Watkins Harper
"Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall."	Epictetus
"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings."	Gérard Depardieu
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"	Clare Boothe Luce
"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."	Philip
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next >>

Browse Failure quotes by Author:

Abraham Lincoln	Aleister Crowley	Alice Kahn
Anais Nin	André Maurois	Andy Anderson
Annie Dillard	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Aristotle
Arsenio Hall	Augustus W. Hare	Author Unknown
A. E. Hotchner	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Berthe Morisot	Bill Cosby
Bruce Lee	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Franklin Kettering
Clare Boothe Luce	Dorothea Broude	Dorthea Bragg
Douglas Couplan	Dr. Joyce	Edgar Albert Guest
Edward Eggleston	Elbert Hubbard	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Flower A. Newhouse	Frances Watkins Harper
Francois Arouet	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Clemenceau	George Crane	George Stanley McGovern
George Washington Carver	God's Little Instruction Book	Gérard Depardieu
Harold Loukes	Harrison Ford	Helen Gurley Brown
Henry Ford	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Herbert Kaufman
Herman Melville	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Humphrey Davy
H. Stanley Judd	James 2:10 Bible	James Albert Michener
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Jean Cocteau
Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dewey
John Keats	John Burroughs	John Christian Bovee
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Heller
Lao-Tzu	Lloyd Jones	Louise Nevelson
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Martin Luther
Mary Bertone	Mary Catherine Bateson	Max Beerbohm
Michael Eisner	Michael J. Gelb	Mike Ditka
Moshe Arens	Napolean Hill	Nicholas Murray Butler
Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden	Paulson Frenckner
Paul Aubuchon	Philip	Philip Caldwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ray Dickinson	Richard Exely
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Richard R. Grant
Robert Browning	Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert F. Goheen	Robert Hewison	Robert Logan
Rod Hughes	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Rush Limbaugh
Samuel Beckett	Scott Adams	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Ted W. Engstrom	Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Tim McMahon
Tom Hopkins	Toni Cade Bambera	Truman Capote
Ty Howard	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Václav Havel
Warren G. Bennis	William Faulkner	William H(oward) Gass
William James "Will" Durant	William John Bennett	William Lloyd George
William S. Gilbert	Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling