Quotes for Failure

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Seth Godin

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Alfred Adler

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Carol Gilligan

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George Edward Woodberry

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

Alexander Nix

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

Smriti Mandhana

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Matthew McConaughey

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Rickey Henderson

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Barack Obama

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Mike Krzyzewski

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

Hima Das

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Charles M. Schwab