Failure Quotes

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Nothing fails like failure

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as 'it' and not 'me'.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Failure has gone to his head.

Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

Don't make excuses, make good.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

To think of failure is to fail.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.