Failure Quotes

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Success and failure is temporary. So don't let them get to you.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Failure is a better teacher than success. I am what I am today because of failures and successes.

In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.

It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.