Failure Quotes

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

~ Michael Jordan

To make the fastest progress,Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureAs parallel experience riversLeading to the sea Of progress-delight.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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

~ Sri Chinmoy

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

~ Jason Fried

If something you did causes failure, shouldn't the exact opposite of what you did bring success?

~ Jessica Brody

The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.

~ B.c. Forbes

Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

~ Jonathan Culver

Deep down, Story Easton knew what would happen if she attempted to off herself—she would fail It was a matter of probability. This was not a new thing, failure. She was, had always been, a failure of fairy-tale proportion. Quitting wasn’t Story’s problem. She had tried, really tried, lots of things during different stages of her life—Girl Scours, the viola, gardening, Tommy Andres from senior year American Lit—but zero cookie sales, four broken strings, two withered azalea bushes, and one uniquely humiliating breakup later, Story still had not tasted success, and with a shriveled-up writing career as her latest disappointment, she realized no magic slippers or fairy dust was going to rescue her from her Anti-Midas Touch. No Happily Ever After was coming. So she had learned to find a certain comfort in failure. In addition to her own screw-ups, others’ mistakes became cozy blankets to cuddle, and she snuggled up to famous failures like most people embrace triumph. The Battle of Little Bighorn—a thing of beauty. The Bay of Pigs—delicious debacle. The Y2K Bug—gorgeously disappointing fuck-up. Geraldo’s anti-climactic Al Capone exhumation—oops! Jaws III—heaven on film. Tattooed eyeliner—eyelids everywhere, revolting. Really revolting. Fat-free potato chips—good Lord, makes anyone feel successful.

~ Elizabeth Leiknes

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

~ Richard G. Scott

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

~ Gisela Richter

Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word experiment in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?

~ Bernadette Pajer

Nothing incites failure more than success.

~ Unknown

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

~ Anthony Liccione

Look forward to failure. Fail quickly. If it does not start with Failure it is probably not meant to be

~ David Sikhosana

You need to be able to think Independently.

~ David Sikhosana

And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

~ Ben Lerner

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

~ Osho

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

~ Richard Branson

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

~ Robert H. Schuller

As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.

~ John Rampton

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

~ Napoleon Hill

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

~ Walter Scott

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

~ Don Johnson

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

~ Richard Branson

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

~ John C. Maxwell

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

~ William James

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

~ Yves Chauvin

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

~ Sara Blakely

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

~ Will Self

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

~ Naveen Jain

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

~ Sara Blakely

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

~ Elbert Hubbard

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

~ Simon Sinek

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

~ Lev Yilmaz

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

~ Gary Ryan Blair