Quotes for Failure

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

Jerry West

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Fail often so you can succeed sooner.

Tom Kelley

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

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

George Burns

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Henry Kravis

Failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

Watching the news, there seems to be an empathy failure and miscommunication.

Sara Pascoe

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Lupita Nyong'o

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Orison Swett Marden

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Thomas J. Watson

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Sara Blakely

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Cat Cora

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Don Shula