Failure Quotes

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

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.