Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

To lose Is to learn.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

When Divine Intelligence wants a great man or woman to render some needed service in the world, the fortunate one is tested out through some form of FAILURE. If you are undergoing what you believe to be failure, have patience; you may be passing through your testing time.