Failure Quotes

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

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

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.

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.