Quotes about failure

There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don’t are not.

Michael Josephson

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you’re a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Chuck Palahniuk

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

Billy Graham

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn’t my fault.

Patrick Lencioni

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty’s head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Dickens

Any survey of the free world’s defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Charlie Munger

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

Phil McGraw