Top 462 Failure Quotes

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.

Sun Yat-sen

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

Anupam Kher

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Soichiro Honda

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Richard Branson

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

H. L. Mencken

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Gordon Ramsay

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