Quotes about Failure

“My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.”

“The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.”

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

“I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.”

“If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.”

“The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.”

“You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.”

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.”

“The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.”

“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.”

“Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?”

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

“Trying to change before you're ready isn't likely to be productive. For example, most New Year's resolutions don't last because people spring into action without being prepared for the work it's going to take. Forcing change based on a date on the calendar, rather than a true readiness to transform, can be a setup for failure.”

“Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.”

“The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?”

“I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live.”

“When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.”

“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”

“I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.”