Top 462 Failure Quotes

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Markus Zusak

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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

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

Carlos Ghosn

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Toby Young

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Steven Spielberg

There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.

There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.

Matt Passmore

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Rickey Henderson

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Sting

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