Failure Quotes

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.

Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

Failure is just part of life; it happens to everyone. Yet, it doesn't have to be crippling if you don't let it.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

I was stained by failure.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment, including the Democrats. And not just because of the failure.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.