Quotes About Failure

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

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

Failure brings a climax in which one has the privilege of clearing his mind of fear and making a new start in another direction.

Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Failure is a blessing when it forces one to depend less upon material forces and more upon spiritual forces.

El fracaso es un embustero con un agudo sentido de la ironía y de la astucia. Se deleita en hacer tropezar cuando el éxito está casi al alcance. UNA

stop spending emotional energy protecting himself from the possible hurts of failure; instead he spends his energy reaching for the probable rewards of success.

Every adversity, every failure   and every heartache carries with it   the Seed of an equivalent   or a greater Benefit

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

I am also trying to emphasize another point, namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others. They permit the newspapers and the gossiping neighbors to do their thinking for them. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. This is no mere statement of a theory— it is a fact. Procrastination

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

El fracaso es un embustero con un agudo sentido de la ironía y de la astucia. Se deleita en hacer tropezar cuando el éxito está casi al alcance.

Give me hunger, O you gods that sit and give The world its orders. Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love, A voice to speak to me in the day end, A hand to touch me in the dark room Breaking the long loneliness.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Mi padre solía decir que la vida no da segundas oportunidades. - Sólo se las da a aquellos a los que nunca les dio una primera. En realidad son oportunidades de segunda mano que alguien no ha sabido aprovechar, pero son mejores que nada.

Nobody succeeds without failing first.

Nadie triunfa sin fracasar antes

La política es a menudo refugio de artistas mediocres y fracasados.

Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de asesino, reunía las cualidades.

The third time is not always the charm.