In Failure Quotes

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Failure is... the highway to success.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

Nothing succeeds like - failure.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.