In Failure Quotes

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Don't make excuses, make good.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as 'it' and not 'me'.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Remove failure as an option.

I have a fear of failure.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

To think of failure is to fail.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility