Failure Quotes by Mason Cooley

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

— Mason Cooley

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

— Mason Cooley

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

— Mason Cooley

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

— Mason Cooley

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

— Mason Cooley

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

— Mason Cooley

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

— Mason Cooley

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

— Mason Cooley

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

— Mason Cooley

No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

— Mason Cooley

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

— Mason Cooley

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

— Mason Cooley

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

— Mason Cooley

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

— Mason Cooley

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

— Mason Cooley