A Quote by William Arthur Ward

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

William Arthur Ward

Quote Topics

Dead Defeat Delay Detour End Failure Street Temporary

Quote Author

William Arthur Ward
American - Writer
1921 - 1994

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

Robert Collier

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something!

Roy H. Williams

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

Augusten Burroughs

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

Jon Gordon

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

Norman Vincent Peale

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

Naomi Judd

If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Hill

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.