Failure Quotes

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.

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.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

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.