Quotes about Failure
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility if you now fail or refuse to demand riches of life, because the acceptance calls for but one thing—incidentally, the only thing you can control—and that is a state of mind. A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.
— Napoleon Hill
The "capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged" is "the chief asset of every man who attains outstanding success in any calling.
— Napoleon Hill
Every failure will teach you a lesson that you need to learn if you will keep your eyes and ears open and be willing to be taught. Every adversity is usually a blessing in disguise. Without reverses and temporary defeat, you would never know the sort of metal of which you are made.
— Napoleon Hill
What of the man who has neither the time, nor the inclination to study failure in search of knowledge that may lead to success? Where, and how is he to learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?
— Napoleon Hill
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others.
— Napoleon Hill
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.
— Napoleon Hill
Success come to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
— Napoleon Hill
Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.
— Napoleon Hill
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
— Napoleon Hill
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit
— Napoleon Hill
Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles," and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure! Faith is the element, the "chemical" which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
— Napoleon Hill
To all these I wish to convey the thought that all achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, BURNING DESIRE for something definite. Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of STRONG DESIRE that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.
— Napoleon Hill