Failure Quotes

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

With the American failure came world failure.

Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko.

Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

War is an admission of failure

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

Thought is borne of failure.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved.

Failure is awesome. Failure means you tried something, you tested it, and you learned some things. Failure gives you the tools to move forward.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

Failure is the price of excellence.

It was my dream Not its failure that damaged me

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.