Failure quotes

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” Charlie Chaplin

“Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Steve Jobs

“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” Steve Jobs

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?” Fidel Castro

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.” Agatha Christie

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.” Jane Austen

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” Confucius

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.” Norman Vincent Peale

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” Amelia Earhart

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” Amelia Earhart

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” Og Mandino

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” Og Mandino

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” Dale Carnegie

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” Buddha

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” Abraham Lincoln

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” Coco Chanel

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” Moliere

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.” Jawaharlal Nehru

“Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.” Robert Redford

“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.” Serj Tankian

“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it” Marilyn Monroe

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“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.” George Washington Bush

“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?” Ernest Hemingway

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” William James