Quotes on Failure

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

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.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.