Failure Quotes
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.
Renee James
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
Karen Armstrong
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If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
Jean Ingelow
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I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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The popular rallies at Rabaa al-Adawiya and other squares across Egypt will defeat despotism and terrorism in the long run. But in the meantime, any solution that fails to restore the public's confidence in the ballot box and falls short of alleviating the sense of victimhood in the Morsi camp will be doomed to failure.
Tawakkol Karman
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren
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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Brené Brown
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
Seth Godin
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
Aaron Huey
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
James Surowiecki
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Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Chester W. Nimitz
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
Eric Ries
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
Dan O'Brien
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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
Loudon Wainwright III
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic William Farrar