Top 462 Failure Quotes

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Malcolm Mclaren

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

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

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

Rickey Henderson

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.

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.

Samuel Smiles

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.

Chiang Kai-shek

White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.

James Howard Kunstler

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Satya Nadella

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Jamie Moyer

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Gloria Swanson

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

T. Boone Pickens

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