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Failure Quotes


"“Failure is not an option, unless you learn from it and make a building"

Full 'Rev. Darrell W. Boswell' Quote   Source: Rev. Darrell W. Boswell
"using blandness to mask our shamefaced failures...."

Full 'Edward Hoagland' Quote   Source: Edward Hoagland
"man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame"

Full 'John Burroughs' Quote   Source: John Burroughs
"man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame"

Full 'J Paul Getty' Quote   Source: J Paul Getty
"it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation...."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"it does not teach you how to deal with failure. When we win, I'm so happy I..."

Full 'Tommy Lasorda' Quote   Source: Tommy Lasorda
"and. . . all are on principle doomed to failure...."

Full 'Jean Paul Sartre' Quote   Source: Jean Paul Sartre
"rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible...."

Full 'William Faulkner' Quote   Source: William Faulkner
"rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible...."

Full 'William Faulkner' Quote   Source: William Faulkner
"succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots...."

Full 'Charles Kettering' Quote   Source: Charles Kettering
"times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses..."

Full 'George Lorimer' Quote   Source: George Lorimer
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination"

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure..."

Full 'John Keats' Quote   Source: John Keats
"assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are..."

Full 'Victor Kiam' Quote   Source: Victor Kiam
"Failure is impossible."

Full 'Susan B Anthony' Quote   Source: Susan B Anthony
"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

Full 'Daniel Webster' Quote   Source: Daniel Webster
"Failure is not an option."

Full 'Demi Moore' Quote   Source: Demi Moore
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

Full 'John Wooden' Quote   Source: John Wooden
"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Full 'Jim Rohn' Quote   Source: Jim Rohn
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."

Full 'Henry Ford' Quote   Source: Henry Ford
"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."

Full 'Jack Lemmon' Quote   Source: Jack Lemmon
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not..."

Full 'Denis Waitley' Quote   Source: Denis Waitley
"Failure to understand reality is not reality's fault? How do you figure?"

Full 'John Alejandro King' Quote   Source: John Alejandro King
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Full 'Charles Kettering' Quote   Source: Charles Kettering
"Failures are like skinned knees -- painful, but superficial."

Full 'H. Ross Perot' Quote   Source: H. Ross Perot
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have..."

Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote   Source: Mary Kay Ash
"certain risks, especially the risk of failure...."

Full 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' Quote   Source: Arnold Schwarzenegger
"who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being...."

Full 'Paul Tillich' Quote   Source: Paul Tillich
"I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine..."

Full 'George Patton' Quote   Source: George Patton
"know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please"

Full 'Bill Cosby' Quote   Source: Bill Cosby
"think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in..."

Full 'Quentin Tarantino' Quote   Source: Quentin Tarantino
"going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success...."

Full 'Hank Aaron' Quote   Source: Hank Aaron
"again. I felt like giving it a shot. Failure taught me that failure isn't..."

Full 'Jim Carrey' Quote   Source: Jim Carrey
"people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder..."

Full 'Michael Jordan' Quote   Source: Michael Jordan
"rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure."

Full 'Jean Kerr' Quote   Source: Jean Kerr
"I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half..."

Full 'Edgar Watson Howe' Quote   Source: Edgar Watson Howe
"meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland..."

Full 'Alex Haley' Quote   Source: Alex Haley
"we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"If we run from failure we run from success. As success is past failure, so"

Full 'Joseph Cubby' Quote   Source: Joseph Cubby
"increase your success rate, double your failure rate."

Full 'Tom Watson' Quote   Source: Tom Watson
"disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin...."

Full 'Dr Benjamin E. Mays' Quote   Source: Dr Benjamin E. Mays
"try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all..."

Full 'Tom T Hall' Quote   Source: Tom T Hall
"It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had..."

Full 'Loren Eiseley' Quote   Source: Loren Eiseley
"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

Full 'David Feherty' Quote   Source: David Feherty
"not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to"

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."

Full 'Roger W Babson' Quote   Source: Roger W Babson
"it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure...."

Full 'Brenda Ueland' Quote   Source: Brenda Ueland
"in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get..."

Full 'Rick Warren' Quote   Source: Rick Warren
"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to"

Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote   Source: Thomas Edison
"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent."

Full 'Ulysses S Grant' Quote   Source: Ulysses S Grant
"but whether you are content with your failure...."

Full 'Abraham Lincoln' Quote   Source: Abraham Lincoln
"enormous success or just a down-and-out failure...."

Full 'Judy Garland' Quote   Source: Judy Garland
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and..."

Full 'Michael Korda' Quote   Source: Michael Korda
"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is..."

Full 'Greil Marcus' Quote   Source: Greil Marcus
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."

Full 'Anton Chekhov' Quote   Source: Anton Chekhov
"become less and less willing to risk failure...."

Full 'John Gardner' Quote   Source: John Gardner
"Our success helps those around us, and failure handicaps those around..."

Full 'Joseph Cubby' Quote   Source: Joseph Cubby
"it's because you've started to think of failure...."

Full 'Tommy Lasorda' Quote   Source: Tommy Lasorda
"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an"

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."

Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote   Source: Thomas Edison
"abilities, while those who encounter failure tend to develop negative views..."

Full 'William Purkey' Quote   Source: William Purkey
"Success is never final, but failure can be."

Full 'Bill Parcells' Quote   Source: Bill Parcells
"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal."

Full 'Joe Paterno' Quote   Source: Joe Paterno
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."

Full 'Mike Ditka' Quote   Source: Mike Ditka
"achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of..."

Full 'Paul Tillich' Quote   Source: Paul Tillich
"his borrowed treasures . . . as by his failure to read these books...."

Full 'Walter Benjamin' Quote   Source: Walter Benjamin
"interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down..."

Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote   Source: Carl Sagan
"letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause...."

Full 'Gustav Mahler' Quote   Source: Gustav Mahler
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as"

Full 'George Eliot' Quote   Source: George Eliot
"working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause...."

Full 'Gustav Mahler' Quote   Source: Gustav Mahler
"persevere is often the difference between failure and success."

Full 'David Sarnoff' Quote   Source: David Sarnoff
"world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia
"The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of..."

Full 'Henry Miller' Quote   Source: Henry Miller
"preparation, hard work, and learning from failure...."

Full 'Colin Powell' Quote   Source: Colin Powell
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those"

Full 'Laurence Peter' Quote   Source: Laurence Peter
"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than"

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important..."

Full 'Barbara Ward' Quote   Source: Barbara Ward
"greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."

Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote   Source: Thomas Huxley
"There's so much fear of failure in me that if I think too much about..."

Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote   Source: Sandra Bullock
"queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to"

Full 'Oprah Winfrey' Quote   Source: Oprah Winfrey
"Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to"

Full 'Mina Thomas Antrim' Quote   Source: Mina Thomas Antrim
"Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures."

Full 'Gene Brown' Quote   Source: Gene Brown
"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts."

Full 'Gary Player' Quote   Source: Gary Player
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Full 'Rudyard Kipling' Quote   Source: Rudyard Kipling
"comes down to is how well you cope with failure. I don't like failing too..."

Full 'Kevin Kline' Quote   Source: Kevin Kline
"but usually news is a record of human failures. Those wanting to celebrate..."

Full 'Linda Ellerbee' Quote   Source: Linda Ellerbee
"men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to..."

Full 'Amelia Earhart' Quote   Source: Amelia Earhart
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the..."

Full 'Johnny Cash' Quote   Source: Johnny Cash