Failure Quotes

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Most progress is most failure.

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

It is the empiric who never fails.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

I'm not the sort of person who fears failure.

Having no regrets makes way for the best piece of advice I can give - don't be afraid of failure.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

Failure is our most important product.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

Because ALWAYS, even in the darkest moments, in moments of sin, in moments of weakness, in moments of failure, I have seen Jesus, and I trusted Him... He has not left me alone.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

Failure to die is always appreciated.