Failure Quotes

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there."

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Nothing fails like failure.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.