Failure Quotes

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Trying is the first step toward failure.