Top 462 Failure Quotes

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Salman Rushdie

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

Moby

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Yann Martel

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

Ezra Taft Benson

Man is not made for defeat.

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

Hideo Kojima

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

John Wooden

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

John Ortberg

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