Top 462 Failure Quotes

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.

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

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.