Failure Quotes

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.

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.

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.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

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.