Failure Quotations

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

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.

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

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

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.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

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

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.