Quotes about Failure

“Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.”

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

“For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.”

“Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.”

“I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.”

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”

“I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.”

“If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.”

“Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.”

“Failure is always an option.”

“I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.”

“I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.”

“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”

“We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.”

“I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.”

“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”

“I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.”

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.”

“If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!”

“Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.”