Failure Quotes
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate