Failure quotes
931 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period."
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
"Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination."
"Failure is a word unknown to me."
"Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again."
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"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
"All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest"
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure."
"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing."
"Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure."
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."
"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
"Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."
"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants."
"I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make."
"Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm."
"Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward"
"The whole world is one family."
"A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do."
