“Pompous as only failures can be.”

“Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection…”

Soichiro Honda (1906–1991) Japanese businessman

“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.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

“Only failure is immoral.”

George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party

“Markets can be efficient or inefficient; so can governments. thus market failure is a counterpoint to government failure.”

Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist

“Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

“The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.”

Deborah Moggach (1948) English writer

“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.”

Philip Pullman book Clockwork

“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.”

George Eliot book Felix Holt, the Radical

“There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist