In Failure Quotes

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.