Failure Quotes

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Success is 99 percent failure.

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.