Failure Quotes

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

With failure, you just try again.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

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

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

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

Don't come home a failure.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

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.