Failure Quotes

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

A vice is a failure of desire

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself.

Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure

When you're afraid of failure you're more likely to do it.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.