Quotes About Failure

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

You can't measure success if you have never failed.

Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.

A good poem about failure is a success.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

It takes many, many failures to reach success.

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.

Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

success is 99% failure

Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.