715 Quotes Regarding Failure


Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

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

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Tom Cochrane

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

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Michael J. Fox

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter