Failure Quotes

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

Charles M. Schwab

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alan Hansen

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Chuck Noll

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

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

Confucius

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

Buddha

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Ali Larter

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Jim Clyburn

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Ann Landers

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

H. L. Mencken

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Abraham Maslow

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Chinese Proverb

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Orison Swett Marden