Failure Quotes

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?

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

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.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.