Failure Quotes

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Helle

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Zigla

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Groucho Marx

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - - An impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

John Fowles, The Magus

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Minna Thomas Antrim

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

Josh Traege

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus