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Quotes About Failure

To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.
~ Debasish Mridha
Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.
~ Dennis E. Adonis
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
~ Arianna Huffington
A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.
~ Lolo Jones
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
My best successes came on the heels of failures.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.
~ Joan Benoit
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.
~ Claudio Ranieri
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.
~ Geoff Stults
Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.
~ Tim Howard
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
~ Constance Marie
I am an entertainer by all means, and I am going to always take stages and will fall on my face with those stages without a care because I am not afraid to fail.
~ Enzo Amore
Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
~ David Petraeus
'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.
~ Dave Foley
We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.
~ Keir Starmer
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
~ Eliot Spitzer
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
~ Kevin Powers
If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
~ Bonnie Hunt
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
~ Sebastian Thrun
The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.
~ John C. Bogle