Quotes about Failure

“My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.”

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

“I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.”

“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.”

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”

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

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.”

“There is always time for failure.”

“If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.”

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”

“As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.”

“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.”

“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”

“You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.”

“With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.”

“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”

“Failure is unfortunately as common as success.”

“Success and failure go hand in hand.”

“Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.”

“It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.”