Quotes and Sayings About Failure

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Failure #Learning

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Kings #Failure #Men

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Inspirational #Motivational #Failure

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Mistake #Failure

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Failure #Judgement #May

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
-- Al Gore

#Failure #Loss #Political

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
-- Al Neuharth

#Failure #Way #Failing

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes-it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Mistake #Failure #Important

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
-- Albert Ellis

#Failure #Past #Errors

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
-- Albert Ellis

#Failure #Intrinsic Value #Persons

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Inspirational #Life #Failure

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
-- Alexander Pope

#Failure #Pride #Men

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Dream #Failure #Heart

Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
-- Alexander Smith

#Failure #Justice #Success And Failure

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

#Success #Congratulations #Failure

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
-- Alfred Adler

#Suicide #Children #Failure

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Song #Failure #Vines

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
-- Alice James

#Lying #Failure #Luck

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Success #Failure #Government

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. 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 a challenge to others.
-- Amelia Earhart

#Courage #Women #Failure

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Success #Failure #Heaven

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
-- Amy Tan

#Failure #Expected

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
-- Anais Nin

#Life #Change #Failure

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
-- Anchee Min

#Failure #Will Power #Ability

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
-- Andre Gide

#Life #Work #Failure

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
-- Andy Grove

#Business #Failure #Inspire

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
-- Anna Olson

#Failure #Important #Trying

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
-- Anne Baxter

#Failure #Failing

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
-- Anne Baxter

#Inspiring #Failure #Phoenix

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
-- Anne Truitt

#Failure #Compassion #Honest