Quotes About Failure

That they often do not even reach it is apparent to many parents and to most educators. The reasons for the failure are many, ranging all the way from various kinds of deprivations in the home environment—economic, social, and/or intellectual (including parental illiteracy)—to personal problems of all kinds (including total revolt against "the system").

When I failed again and again to reproduce life in some satisfactory and perfect form, I was the more imprisoned, for all my carefree living, within my craving for this satisfaction.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

To have not succeeded in the world was required to be a source of shame for a person. And yet she suspected that failure in worldly terms was the condition of the majority people of the world. To have been rejected, to have lacked courage, to have tried but failed.

They needn't have worried. Three hundred men, it turned out, were not enough to massacre a man like Bussy.* The assassination attempt had not only failed, it backfired completely by adding to the warrior's renown.

If Peggy's personal star was on the rise, Arnold's was in freefall as their respective ships headed into the high seas.

In truth, the intergovernmental body entrusted to prevent "dangerous" levels of climate change has not only failed to make progress over its twenty-odd years of work (and more than ninety official negotiation meetings since the agreement was adopted), it has overseen a process of virtually uninterrupted backsliding.

Indeed, the failure of our political leaders to even attempt to ensure a safe future for us represents a crisis of legitimacy of almost unfathomable proportions.

Last night I dreamed—blessed illusion— that I had a beehive here in my heart and that the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems (HarperCollins, 2009)

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one's major purpose in life.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.

Men and women who come to the closing chapter of life disappointed because they did not attain the goal which they had set their hearts upon achieving, they teach you what not to do.

success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Every failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater reward'.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach

Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.