At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
3 sayings from Hector Berlioz
Don't come home a failure.
3 more thoughts from Ty Cobb
Failure is a word unknown to me.
5 more quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.
4 wisdom & wit from Morihei Ueshiba
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
10 other thoughts from Og Mandino
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
2 quotes from Frederick Smith
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
2 views from James Lane Allen
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
8 quotes from Quentin Crisp
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
6 quotes from Carter G. Woodson
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
3 thoughts from Sidney Hook
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
2 quotes from John Osborne
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
12 more views from Rudyard Kipling
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
4 quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
24 quotes from Carl Sandburg
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
10 views from Edward Abbey
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
12 quotes from Daniel Webster
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
6 more quotes from Jules Renard
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
21 sayings from George Burns
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
21 wisdom & wit from George Burns
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
4 views from Abraham Joshua Heschel
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
2 quotes from Robert W. Service
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
3 thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
3 quotes from Francis Picabia
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
25 wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
40 other sayings from William James
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
11 views from Robert E. Lee
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
31 views from Gertrude Stein
Failure is impossible.
14 more quotes from Susan B. Anthony
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
24 quotes from James Russell Lowell
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
3 more wisdom & wit from Charles M. Schwab
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
24 quotes from James Russell Lowell
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
23 more sayings from Thomas A. Edison
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
3 views from David Sarnoff
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
32 views from Michel de Montaigne
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
3 other quotes from An Wang
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.
7 sayings from B. F. Skinner
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
3 more thoughts from Herbert Kaufman
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
7 more sayings from Gloria Swanson
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
3 quotes from Charlotte Whitton
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
6 more quotes from Jack Kerouac
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
5 thoughts from Knute Rockne
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
17 thoughts from Tennessee Williams
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
2 quotes from Toni Cade Bambara
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
6 quotes from Earl Warren
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
8 other quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
7 more quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
17 more quotes from John Burroughs
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
17 other quotes from John Burroughs
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
11 other quotes from Charlie Chaplin
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
4 sayings from Samuel Beckett
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
7 other sayings from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
3 quotes from George Canning
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
7 other thoughts from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
7 views from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
3 more views from Mary Pickford
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
15 sayings from Christopher Morley
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
22 thoughts from Robert Browning
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
2 more thoughts from George Edward Woodberry
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
22 quotes from James Dyson
Failure has gone to his head.
10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
22 more sayings from James Dyson
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
5 more quotes from Alastair Campbell
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
3 wisdom & wit from Anne Baxter
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
21 other quotes from Malcolm X
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
3 other sayings from Anne Baxter
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
26 more quotes from Harry S. Truman
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
10 views from B. C. Forbes
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
10 quotes from B. C. Forbes
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
59 other sayings from Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
2 quotes from Errol Flynn
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
7 other sayings from Lillian Hellman
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
59 other thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
4 more quotes from Kenneth L. Pike
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
4 quotes from Rosalind Russell
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
15 more views from Norman Cousins
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
32 quotes from Henry Ford
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
31 sayings from Eric Hoffer
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
3 more quotes from Roger Babson
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
3 other quotes from Roger Babson
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.
19 quotes from Marshall McLuhan
My reputation grows with every failure.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
12 other quotes from Casey Stengel
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
12 quotes from Bernard Baruch
Failure is success if we learn from it.
12 sayings from Malcolm Forbes
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
5 quotes from Charles Horton Cooley
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
11 other quotes from Paul Tillich
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
5 wisdom & wit from Davy Crockett
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
11 quotes from Charles Kettering
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
22 wisdom & wit from William Feather
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
10 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
16 sayings from Coco Chanel
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
15 wisdom & wit from Walter Scott
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
4 other thoughts from Karl Liebknecht
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
2 other views from Alice James
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
10 thoughts from Max Beerbohm
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
19 views from H. G. Wells
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
4 quotes from Truman Capote
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
4 other views from William Howard Taft
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
21 other quotes from Laurence J. Peter
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
28 more wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
9 other thoughts from John Dewey
Failure too is a form of death.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
28 thoughts from Napoleon Hill
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
11 wisdom & wit from Graham Greene
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
28 other views from Napoleon Hill
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
2 other views from Anna Neagle
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
19 quotes from John Keats
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
28 sayings from Napoleon Hill
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
21 other views from Dale Carnegie
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
2 quotes from Maude Adams
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
11 views from Jawaharlal Nehru
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
My life has been nothing but a failure.
5 sayings from Claude Monet
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
74 views from Winston Churchill
Success is 99 percent failure.
2 thoughts from Soichiro Honda
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
2 other thoughts from Soichiro Honda
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
52 sayings from George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
12 views from James Allen
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
12 thoughts from James Allen
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
12 more wisdom & wit from James Allen
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
2 quotes from Maude Adams