Failure Quotes

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Failure too is a form of death.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Every failure is a step to success.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.