Failure Quotes

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Books were always my friends Last more than fifty years Books gave me dreams. Dreams resulted in missions. Books helped me confidently take up the missions. Books gave me courage at the time of failures. Good books were for me angels that touched my heart gently at the time. Hence I ask young friends to have books as friends. Books are your good friends.

A leader should give the credit of the success to the team members. But when failure comes, leaders should absorb the failures and protect the team members.

Confidence and Hard-work is the only medicine to kill a disease called failure!

Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.

Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough.

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt In Learning".

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

Of course I would have preferred success; but failing in that, I have no regrets for having rejected all advice to the contrary, and resolutely made the struggle.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far.

I have had a lot of success with failure.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!