Failure Quotes

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

How to fail: Try too hard.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Innovation without insight is failure.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

Play with no fear of failure.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.