Failure Quotes

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

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.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Every failure is a step to success.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

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

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.