Top 462 Failure Quotes

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Daryl Hall

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Robert W. Service

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Morris West

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Malcolm Mclaren

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Malcolm Mclaren

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

John Mayer

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

Ben Affleck

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

Lupe Fiasco

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Isabella Bird

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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