Quotes About Failure

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.

Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of how and why their defeat happened.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.