Failure Quotes

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.

There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Success is made of 99% failure.

Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.

The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

You have to be free to fail in this world.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.