Failure Quotes

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

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.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.