Famous Failure Quotes
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Being single teaches you how to be emotionally fluent — how to sit with yourself, understand your patterns, and name what you feel without running from it. You learn that self-love isn’t a slogan; it’s a daily practice of showing up. In the stillness, you notice where you’ve healed and where you still ache. That’s not failure — that’s honesty. And honesty is the soil where real love grows later.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.