Failure quotes

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.” Ambrose Bierce

“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.” Ambrose Bierce

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.” James Allen

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” John Burroughs

“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” Deepak Chopra

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” Malcolm Forbes

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” Christopher Morley

“No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.” Robert William Service

“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” Morihei Ueshiba

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” John Wooden

“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.” LeBron James

“We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.” Matthew McConaughey

“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.” Cate Blanchett

“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.” Orlando Bloom