Failure Quotes - page 2

A minute's success pays the failure of years. (Robert Browning)
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. View quote
Andy Grove
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. View quote
Dan Quayle
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. View quote
Christopher Morley
In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure. View quote
Confucius
No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. View quote
Groucho Marx
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. View quote
Mary Pickford
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. (Norman Cousins)
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. View quote
Jack Kerouac
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. View quote
William Saroyan
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. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. View quote
Rosalind Russell
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. View quote
Gordon Moore
Haste in every business brings failure. View quote
Herodotus
People who avoid failure also avoid success. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
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. (Anthony Robbins)
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. View quote
William Faulkner
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. View quote
H. G. Wells
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. View quote
James Russell Lowell