Failure Quotes

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try agai...

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your...

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right....

It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if...

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...

Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...

For what is more lovable than failure?

Failure, it occurred to him, was the secular equivalent of sin. Modern secular man was born into a w...

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater bene...

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to ...

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who at...

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you eve...

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems t...

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and...

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

Because human nature never changes.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they c...

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you of...

What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches u...

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one th...

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forg...

When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice c...

We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we ha...

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick wall...

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success ca...

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any m...

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between suc...

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you...

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t...

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it fa...

His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and h...

To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and h...

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we ...

Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit ...

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to m...

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho...

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail bette...

Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were goo...

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corn...

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human exist...

Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, gri...

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and...

What you rarely see is a stillborn failure that transmogrifies into a stellar success. Small success...

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

It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. ...

But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it w...

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength...

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree,The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-...

To make the fastest progress,Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureA...

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning h...

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which...

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which...

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection s...

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve w...

I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still h...

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but neces...

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experien...

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My desce...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly ...