Failure Quotes

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

Success in never final; failure is never fatal

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Haste in every business brings failures.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.