In Failure Quotes
Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
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.
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.
The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.
Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
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.
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.
Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?
Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.