Failure Quotes

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

All the world loves a good loser.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

The wisest of the wise may err.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!