Failure Quotes

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The only failure is not to try.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.