Failure Quotes

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.