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Quotes About Failure

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.
~ Jeffrey Fry
Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.
~ Unknown
His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure.
~ Unknown
When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.
~ Dean Cavanagh
If You Fail Don't Fail To Try Again, You Success Maybe in Your Next Trials.
~ Unknown
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.
~ Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.
~ Lauren Oliver, Panic
Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
~ Padgett Powell
When you get used to being let down, you will never be ashamed of failure.
~ Uzoma Nnadi
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
~ Richard Branson
If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
~ Tadashi Yanai
Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.
~ Unknown
It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.
~ Unknown
Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.
~ Andy Paula
Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.
~ Unknown
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
~ Anthony Liccione
The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
~ Nathanael Kanyinga
I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
~ Wynonna Judd
But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.
~ Joaquin Miller
Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand - Contempt is Failure's share!
~ Unknown
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
~ Alexander Payne