Failure Quotes

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Kin Hubbard

All the world loves a good loser.

Kin Hubbard

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Karl Liebknecht

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Kevin Powers

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Kevin Smith

I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

Keith Teare

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Luc de Clapiers

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences o...

Larry Elder

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Lady Gregory

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Lee H. Hamilton

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

LeBron James

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Louis C. K.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Laurence J. Peter

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Lisa Marie Presley

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Lincoln Steffens

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao Tzu

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Lily Tomlin

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash