Failure Quotes

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

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

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

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

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

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

"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 have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success."

"War is the greatest failure of mankind."

"To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve."

"I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'"

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."

"If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances."

"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."

"Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom."

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

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."

"What we have most to fear is failure of the heart."

"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."

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

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

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

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