Top 100 Failure But Success Quotes
#2. Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Junot Diaz
#3. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#4. I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush
#5. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
#6. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#7. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
Michael Josephson
#8. It takes tremendous effort to rise but it takes less effort to fall
Kedron Omosigho
#9. Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
Richard G. Scott
#10. I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Reggie Jackson
#11. Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames
#12. To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive ... that I'd never amount to anything.
Christopher Titus
#13. Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill
#14. You won't be judged just by your successes and failure but also by how you reacted to success and failure.
Decker Schutt
#15. The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
Brian Tracy
#16. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#17. There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
Benjamin Franklin
#18. Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared.
Michael J. Fox
#19. You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
Fred Brooks
#20. You should have a kind heart because you are not just a so and so person,you are also an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness because,he is the bestower of all desired attributes but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creation
Jaspreet Kaur
#21. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
Martha Beck
#22. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
Reese Witherspoon
#23. We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Bram Stoker
#24. Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Ben Carson
#25. All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' - which is just another way of saying that you can't.
Richard Feynman
#26. The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.
William Ritter
#27. Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.
V. Raymond Edman
#28. On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
John Calvin
#29. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
#30. It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient.
Debasish Mridha
#31. It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
Thomas J. Watson
#32. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.
Napoleon Hill
#33. Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.
E. M. Forster
#34. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
Ramananda Prasad
#35. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
Bruce Lee
#36. We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Leo Buscaglia
#37. To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact.
H.L. Stephens
#38. Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.
Kamal Ravikant
#39. Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
Eric Hoffer
#40. The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Herodotus
#41. Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Roger Von Oech
#42. When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.
Stephen Covey
#43. Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
Catherine Ponder
#44. Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge.
P.D. James
#45. Your brilliant first flop was a raging success! Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!" She handed a notebook to Rosie Revere, who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.
Andrea Beaty
#46. Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#47. Cinderella Rule #16
Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.
Donna Kauffman
#48. I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.
Michael Feldman
#49. It can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.
Marc Maron
#50. Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.
Joseph Sugarman
#51. The road won't always be easy but it will be worth it.
Cas McCullough
#52. You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.
Stella Adler
#53. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
#54. In times of failure you are alone. But success brings many friends.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
Tim Cowlishaw
#56. The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.
Jacob Braude
#57. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
#59. Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
Cesc Fabregas
#60. Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried
Epiphana Lewis
#61. No one likes the word "failure" and no one wants to ever experience failure ... but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#62. Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
Justin Guarini
#63. There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Ann Landers
#64. Persistence in the face of failure is of course important, but it is not the same thing as dedication or passion. Persistence is a discipline that you learn; devotion is a dedication you can't ignore.
Stuart Firestein
#65. School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.
Jules Henry
#66. The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.
Ogwo David Emenike
#67. Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.
V. Raymond Edman
#69. You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.
Anthony Doerr
#71. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.
Rick Warren
#72. Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
Suki Waterhouse
#74. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.
Donald Hall
#75. Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success.
Drake
#76. That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure.
Steven Pressfield
#77. But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma
#78. I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.
Paulo Coelho
#79. Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.
George Orwell
#80. Failure is a part of everyone's journey. But it is your attitude toward failure that will determine your ultimate success.
Rick Warren
#81. People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.
Henry Ford
#82. A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#84. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. If
Bertrand Russell
#85. You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.
Matt Bomer
#88. People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.
Randy Gage
#89. Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!
Israelmore Ayivor
#90. To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.
Brent Weeks
#91. Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.
Porochista Khakpour
#92. It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.
Steve Goodier
#93. Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
#94. Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!
Gerard De Marigny
#95. If you take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things. But if you put responsibility on someone else, then you are giving them the power to decide your fate.
Deja King
#96. But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can.
Sarah Porter
#97. I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
#98. Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
#99. I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.
Eric Idle
#100. No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
Clifton Anderson
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