In Failure Quotes
Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.
Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.
There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.
If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.
I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.
The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.
