Failure Quotes

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Failure is impossible.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.