Failure Quotes

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.