Failure Quotes

Success without happiness is failure.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #‎ disclosure of the UFO files.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

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

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.

The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

Want to become a champion? Then build your successes on a solid foundation of failure!

It is technically a failure when you don't try.