Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
4 other quotes from Truman Capote
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
4 quotes from William Howard Taft
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
28 other views from Napoleon Hill
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
9 more quotes from John Dewey
Failure too is a form of death.
11 more quotes from Graham Greene
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
28 more wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
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.
28 thoughts from Napoleon Hill
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
2 other quotes from Anna Neagle
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
19 quotes from John Keats
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
21 more views from Dale Carnegie
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
2 wisdom & wit from Maude Adams
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
52 quotes from George Eliot
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
11 quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
My life has been nothing but a failure.
5 sayings from Claude Monet
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
Success is 99 percent failure.
2 more views from Soichiro Honda
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
2 thoughts from Soichiro Honda
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
12 other thoughts from James Allen
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.
12 sayings from James Allen
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.
12 wisdom & wit from James Allen
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
13 wisdom & wit from Amos Bronson Alcott
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
2 views from Maude Adams
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
3 sayings from Hector Berlioz
Don't come home a failure.
3 other quotes from Ty Cobb
Failure is a word unknown to me.
5 more quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.
4 quotes from Morihei Ueshiba
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
10 other quotes from Og Mandino
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
2 other sayings from Frederick Smith
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
2 other sayings from James Lane Allen
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
8 other wisdom & wit from Quentin Crisp
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
6 views from Carter G. Woodson
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
3 other sayings from Sidney Hook
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
2 more sayings from John Osborne
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
12 more quotes from Rudyard Kipling
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
4 sayings from William Lloyd Garrison
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
24 more views from Carl Sandburg
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
10 more wisdom & wit from Edward Abbey
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
12 other views from Daniel Webster
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
6 sayings from Jules Renard
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
21 sayings from George Burns
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
21 more sayings from George Burns
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
4 views from Abraham Joshua Heschel
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
2 other views from Robert W. Service
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
3 quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
3 sayings from Francis Picabia
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
25 sayings from Orison Swett Marden
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
40 other views from William James
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
Failure is impossible.
14 sayings from Susan B. Anthony
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
24 more wisdom & wit from James Russell Lowell
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
3 more thoughts from Charles M. Schwab
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
23 more views from Thomas A. Edison
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
24 more quotes from James Russell Lowell
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
23 other quotes from Thomas A. Edison
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
3 more thoughts from David Sarnoff
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
3 thoughts from An Wang
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.
7 more views from B. F. Skinner
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
3 sayings from Herbert Kaufman
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
7 other views from Gloria Swanson
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
3 other quotes from Charlotte Whitton
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
6 quotes from Jack Kerouac
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
17 other quotes from Tennessee Williams
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
2 other sayings from Toni Cade Bambara
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
6 other sayings from Earl Warren
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
8 views from Malcolm Muggeridge
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
7 other thoughts from Arnold J. Toynbee
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
17 sayings from John Burroughs
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
17 more quotes from John Burroughs
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
11 quotes from Charlie Chaplin
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
4 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Beckett
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
7 wisdom & wit from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
3 more quotes from George Canning
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
7 other sayings from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
7 more quotes from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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.
3 other quotes from Mary Pickford
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
15 quotes from Christopher Morley
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
22 views from Robert Browning
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
2 quotes from George Edward Woodberry
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
22 other quotes from James Dyson
Failure has gone to his head.
10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
22 more quotes from James Dyson
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
5 other sayings from Alastair Campbell
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
3 other sayings from Anne Baxter
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
21 other thoughts from Malcolm X
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
3 wisdom & wit from Anne Baxter
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
13 sayings from Fred Allen
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
10 more wisdom & wit from B. C. Forbes
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
10 other quotes from B. C. Forbes
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
2 views from Errol Flynn
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
7 more wisdom & wit from Lillian Hellman
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
59 other sayings from Elbert Hubbard
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
4 wisdom & wit from Kenneth L. Pike
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
4 wisdom & wit from Rosalind Russell
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
15 wisdom & wit from Norman Cousins
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
32 thoughts from Henry Ford
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
3 other quotes from Roger Babson
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
3 more quotes from Roger Babson
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
19 more quotes from Marshall McLuhan
My reputation grows with every failure.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
12 sayings from Casey Stengel
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
12 thoughts from Bernard Baruch
Failure is success if we learn from it.
12 sayings from Malcolm Forbes
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
5 sayings from Charles Horton Cooley
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
11 more thoughts from Paul Tillich
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
5 quotes from Davy Crockett
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
11 more wisdom & wit from Charles Kettering
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
22 wisdom & wit from William Feather
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
10 views from Luc de Clapiers
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
16 quotes from Coco Chanel
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
15 more views from Walter Scott
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
4 quotes from Karl Liebknecht
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
2 other views from Alice James
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
10 other quotes from Max Beerbohm