Failure Quotes

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

I've never considered failure.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Failure is what you may need to eventually succeed.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.