In Failure Quotes
Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.
Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.
A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.
The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.
It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.
I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.
Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.
