Failure Quotes

"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States"

Harry S. Truman, President

"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe"

Henry Miller, Writer

"The only risk of failure is promotion"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest"

Chanakya, Politician

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!"

Phil Heath, Athlete

"I don't believe in failure, only setbacks"

John Fredriksen, Businessman

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure"

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

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

Tom Hopkins, Businessman

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives"

Robert Farrar Capon

"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure"

Jim Dale, Musician

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying"

John Burroughs, Author

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space"

Johnny Cash, Musician

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

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

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