Quotes About Failure

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

I had flops, I had success.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.