Failure Quotes

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

Success without fulfillment is failure.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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.

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

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

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

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again