Failure Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

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.