Failure Quotes

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Success is on the far side of failure.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

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.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

90% of success is failure.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure