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Quotes About Failure

If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful.
~ Charles Barkley
Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.
~ Charles Baxter
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
~ Charles Dickens
First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is. It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence. You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
~ Charles Dickens
Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.
~ Charles Dickens
It is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.
~ Charles Dickens
Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
~ Charles Dickens
My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.
~ Charles Dickens
is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.
~ Charles Dickens
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.
~ Charles F. Kettering
Pride never admits its failures. Instead, the prideful person continues to push forward, blindly seeking self-gratification.
~ Charles F. Stanley
As long as our faith is no deeper than our circumstance, we're set up for failure.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Sus pensamientos, que salen de sus creencias básicas, son como los controladores de tráfico de su vida. Determinan adónde va, qué actividades realiza, cómo las realiza, qué personas está dispuesto a incluir en su vida y muchos otros factores, todo lo cual resulta en su éxito o fracaso final.
~ Charles F. Stanley
A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.
~ Charles F. Stanley
God has not designed you for failure. He created you for success—not success from the world's perspective, but success His way—which glorifies and honors Him and also brings many blessings.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Los fracasos no nos convierten en fracasados; pero el fracasar y luego responder adecuadamente puede servir para preparar el camino hacia futuras victorias.
~ Charles F. Stanley
nos hace falta leer el libro de Proverbios, en el cual Dios dice repetidas veces que el hombre que no puede aceptar críticas ni reproches está destinado al fracaso.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
~ Charles F. Stanley
For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.
~ Charles Fishman
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
The point is that progress—whether in business, an economy, or science—comes through experimentation and failure
~ Charles G. Koch
Optimism... A kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.
~ Elbert Hubbard