Top 462 Failure Quotes

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

John Hersey

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Edwin Markham

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Gifford Pinchot

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Tom Hopkins

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Lev Yilmaz

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce Brothers

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Chester W. Nimitz

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