Failure Quotes

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

There is always time for failure.