Failure Quotes

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a 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.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.