A Failure Quotes

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Nothing succeeds like - failure.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

If I can see it, it's a failure

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Do not let fear of failure overwhelms joy success

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.