Top 590 Failure Quotes

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.
Mike Peters
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
Burt Rutan
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Frederick W. Smith
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
Matt Emmons
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it’s your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
Scott Adams
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down.
Jerry Rice
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Jeremy Irons
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone’s going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism – or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
Sheila Jackson Lee
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 Schwab
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Lane Allen
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
Johann Most
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
Myles Munroe
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Tony Jaa
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
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
An Wang
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Henry Rollins
I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don’t do it, it is not a good feeling. I don’t want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.
Chris Coleman
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers
With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
Neal Boortz
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Tammy Bruce
Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
Rick Wilson
My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.
Hideo Kojima
So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Jeremy Irons
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen
I believe you must find the things in life that you love, and don’t let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes, but you’re never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don’t fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive.
Bret Michaels
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
Peter Carey
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce Meyer
I don’t have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn’t allow myself to anymore.
Jaylen Brown
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Tony Robbins
The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It’s just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.
Mark Manson
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
Michael Gove
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
Miriam Toews
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it’s still there. When you accept both of them, it’s like, ‘You know what? Don’t get too identified with success or too identified with failure – just be cool with them.’
Craig David
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
Douglas Coupland
Failure is always an option.
Adam Savage
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Kobe Bryant
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done. Once I was married, I didn’t want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
Shannen Doherty
And in reality, I don’t think it’s a real documentary. It’s more a story of her life. It’s a story of survival. It’s a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
Maximilian Schell
I don’t want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all, but Charlotte’s way better.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Chester W. Nimitz
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
Jim Clyburn
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
Malcolm Mclaren