Failure Quotes

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

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.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

There is always time for failure.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

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

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.