Failure In Life Quotes

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Failure is part of the process of success.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

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

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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

Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.