Quotes about failure
used in the 'Strategies for Success"
Leadership Curriculum
A minute of success pays for years of failure. Robert Browning
Failure has been correctly identified as the path of least
"persistence".
Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to
succeed by failing.
Failure is deadly, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a
dead-end street. William Arthur Ward
Failure is merely another opportunity to more intelligently begin
again. Henry Ford
Fall in love with what you are going to do for a living. To be able
to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day
is beyond words. I'd rather be a failure in something I love than
be successful in something I hate. George Burns
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William
Saroyan
I
don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody. Bill Cosby
I
wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
If you have made mistakes there is always another chance. 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. Mary
Pickford
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will
be few. Brian Tracy
If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you
enjoy. Sylvester Stallone
Imagine that you are already the very best in your field; how would
you behave differently? The fear of failure is the greatest single
obstacle to success in adult life.
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of
failure that paralyzes you.
Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your
failure is attitude.
Most people achieved their successses one step beyond what looked
like their greatest failure
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the
habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as
a bad example. Paul Dickson
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather
Not failure but low aim is a crime. Ernest Holmes
Remember that failure is an event - not a person.
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed
in five words: "I did not have time."
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure
The successful person is prosperous, because he has developed
ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because
only 5% of his natural talents have been utilized. Charles E.
Popplestone
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees
failure in life.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard
Think continually in terms of the rewards of success rather than the
penalties of failure.
We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can
choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens.
Success or failure depends on your attitude. Alfred A Montapert
We need to teach the highly educated person 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
What is defeat? (failure) Nothing but education, nothing but the
first step toward something better. Wendell Phillips
You learn from successful failures. |
