Failure Quotes

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

The key to success is failure

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Your success does not depend on the failure of others.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

It is not the critic who counts

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

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.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

You expect success, you respect failure.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

A failure is only a step on the way to your success.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.