In Failure Quotes

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

Don't come home a failure.

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.

Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

Success is failure inside out.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.

Success without fulfillment is failure

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Do not blame anyone if at last you don’t succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.