Failure Quotes

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.