Quotes about Failure

“Success unshared is failure.”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

“Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.”

“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”

“When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'”

“Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.”

“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”

“Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”

“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.”

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”

“Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.”

“The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.”

“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.”

“Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.”

“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”

“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”

“Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don't own their failure, and if you don't own your failures, you're never going to own your successes.”

“After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.”

“I want to become a star. Failure is not an option.”