Top 462 Failure Quotes

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

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.

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.