Failure Quotes

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

J.K. Rowling

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Iain Duncan Smith

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Paul Twitchell

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Phil McGraw

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

Voltaire

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

Sylvester Stallone

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

J. Richard Clarke

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Alan Price

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

Mike Peters

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

J. Paul Getty

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Judd Nelson

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Koichi Tanaka

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sydney Pollack

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Jim Dale