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Quotes About Failure

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
~ Harold Ramis
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
~ Hildegard Knef
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
~ Jean Kerr
And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
~ Og Mandino
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
~ Alan Shearer
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.
~ Frederick Lenz
How can you truly know what success is, if you've never experienced failure?
~ Chad Pennington
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
~ William Feather
I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success
~ Gavin DeGraw
I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.
~ Thomas Jones
The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.
~ Neil Gaiman
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
~ Elon Musk
One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
~ Havelock Ellis
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
No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
~ Merle Shain
Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.
~ Michael Josephson
I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
~ Shekhar Kapur
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
~ Jane Jacobs
I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.
~ Howard Jacobson
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
~ John Wooden