Quotes About Failure

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not told us that He requires success of us.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Success without happiness is failure.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.