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Quotes About Failure

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.
~ Lauren Fleshman
Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.
~ Zig Ziglar
We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.
~ Reshma Saujani
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
~ Seth Godin
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
~ Arthur Bloch
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
~ Howard Zinn
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
~ John Wooden
Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.
~ Errol Flynn
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
~ Colson Whitehead
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
~ Clay Shirky
Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.
~ Norman Finkelstein
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
~ Albert Ellis
Haste in every business brings failures.
~ Herodotus
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.
~ John Harvey-Jones
Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.
~ Samael Aun Weor
The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.
~ Jose Mourinho
I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
~ Ned Vizzini
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
~ Unknown
I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
~ David Cage
Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart