Failure Quotes

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not told us that He requires success of us.

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Failure is not a destination; it’s an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.