Failure

1. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford.

2. And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. Robert Frost.
3. We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life. John W Gardner
4. It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work. Jerry Gillies
5. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. Charles J Givens

6. Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself. Elbert Hubbard

7. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard
8. I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. Tom Hopkins
9. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose. Elbert Hubbard
10. I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. Tom Hopkins

11. There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Thomas H Huxley

12. There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. William James
13. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
14. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles F Kettering

15. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Robert F Kennedy

16. There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. John Keats
17. I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats
18. Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. John Keats

19. We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. David Grayson

20. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. William Faulkner
21. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather
22. If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. Francois FéNelon
23. A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Ferdinand Foch