Failure Quotes

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

Failure is not an American habit.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Failure should be our teacher...

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is never worry, anxiety nor a fear of failure in our life.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

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.

Failure is success training.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Failure is my specialty.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.