Quotes About Failure

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

"When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes."

"We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are."

"Success has many fathers, failure is a mother."

"The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded."

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If you experiment a lot you will fail often but at the same time your odds of success will also increase. Success and failure go hand in hand; they are not mutually exclusive. Learn to look at success and failure as gradations on a continuum, not as binary opposites.

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

The only man who never make a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

Those who will not learn in plenty to keep their place must learn it by their need when they have had their way and the fields spurn their seed. We have failed Thy grace. Lord, I flinch and pray, send Thy necessity. We Who Prayed and Wept, p. 211.

As a nation, then, we are not very religious and not very democratic, and that is why we have been destroying the family farm for the last forty years—along with other small local economic enterprises of all kinds. We have been willing for millions of people to be condemned to failure and dispossession by the workings of an economy utterly indifferent to any claims they may have had either as children of God or as citizens of a democracy.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

Their failure was something you felt rather than saw.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?