Failure Quotes

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Failure is the seed of success

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Failure is not an option!

There are no failures - only feedback.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

The whole world is one family.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.