Quotes About Failure

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Success is not forever, and failure is never final.

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.

Success is buried in the garden of failure.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

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.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.