Failure Quotes

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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.

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.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.