The man who forms the habit of
beginning without finishing has simply
formed the habit of failure.
?Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
To begin to think with purpose, is to
enter the ranks of those strong ones
who only recognize failure as
one of the pathways to attainment.
?James Allen
All human actions are equivalent... and
all are on principle doomed to failure.
?Jean-Paul Sartre
No one ever won a chess game by betting
on each move. Sometimes you have to
move backward to get a step forward.
?Amar Gopal Bose
He was a self-made man who owed
his lack of success to nobody.
?Joseph Heller
Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
?Walter Brunell
Success is never final, but failure can be.
?Bill Parcells
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have
the habit of making excuses.
?George Washington Carver
I know fear is an obstacle for some people,
but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure
always made me try harder next time.
?Michael Jordan
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
?Confucius
The world is divided into two categories:
failures and unknowns.
?Francis Picabia
You may not realize it when it happens, but
a kick in the teeth may be
the best thing in the world for you.
?Walt Disney
Success is a public affair.
Failure is a private funeral.
?Rosalind Russell
My great concern is not whether you
have failed, but whether
you are content with your failure.
?Abraham Lincoln
Success is never final and failure never
fatal. It's courage that counts.
?George R. Tilton
I don't measure a man's success by how
high he climbs but how high
he bounces when he hits bottom.
?George S. Patton
There is no human failure greater than to
launch a profoundly important
endeavour and then leave it half done.
?Barbara Ward
Who has never tasted what is bitter
does not know what is sweet.
?German Proverb
A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure
until he begins to blame somebody else.
?J. Paul Getty
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
?Tony Richardson
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse
to try new things. The saddest summary
of a life contains three descriptions: could
have, might have, and should have.
?Louis Boone
Failure is simply a few errors in
judgment, repeated every day.
?Jim Rohn
There are two kinds of failures: those
who thought and never did, and
those who did and never thought.
?Laurence J. Peter
If there exists no possibility of failure,
then victory is meaningless.
?Robert H. Schuller
Failure is the condiment that
gives success its flavor.
?Truman Capote
There is something good in all seeming
failures. You are not to see that now.
Time will reveal it. Be patient.
?Sri Swami Sivananda
Success is never final.
Failure is never fatal.
?Joe Paterno
Our business in this world is not to
succeed, but to
continue to fail, in good spirits.
?Robert Louis Stevenson
Failures are like skinned knees --
painful, but superficial.
?H. Ross Perot
I cannot give the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula of failure --
which is try to please everybody.
?Herbert B. Swope
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
?Zig Ziglar
A proud heart can survive a general failure
because such a failure does not prick its pride.
?African Proverb
