Failure Quotes

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Success unshared is failure.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.

You grow from failure. That's one thing I try to apply to my life in all aspects.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

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?

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.