Quotes About Failure

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Success has made failures of many men.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Success is made of 99% failure.

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.