A Failure Quotes
If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.
Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.
A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.
If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
