Quotes about failure

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

Confucius

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.

Zig Ziglar

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.

Steven Spielberg

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

Malcolm X

Failure to read what is happening in another’s soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Marcus Aurelius

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Agatha Christie

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Laozi

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Harry S. Truman