715 Quotes Regarding Failure


The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
Charles M. Schwab

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
John H. Johnson

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphry Davy

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger von Oech

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Jim Palmer

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha