Quotes About Failure

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

You cannot be successful without failure.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.