Failure Quotes

Losing is a part of winning.

Dick Munro

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Sean Lennon

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Rick Perry

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Harold Blake Walker

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Michael J. Fox

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

William Moulton Marston

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Bryan Cranston

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Elie Tahari

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Amy Tan

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Gordon Ramsay

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.

E. V. Cooke

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Peter Berg

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Jerry Brown

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Gavyn Davies

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

George Hickenlooper

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Edmond H. Fischer