Quotes about Failure

“Success is 99 percent failure.”

“As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.”

“If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.”

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

“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.”

“My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.”

“You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.”

“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.”

“I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.”

“We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.”

“Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship.”

“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”

“If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.”

“I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'”

“Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.”

“I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.”

“If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.”

“The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.”

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”