Failure Quotes

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Success is my only option, failure's not.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

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.

The reality is, sometimes, you lose. And you're never too good to lose. And you're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

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

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

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

Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.

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

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

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.

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