Failure Quotes
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I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
Regina King
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
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If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.
Martin Sheen
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
Matthew McConaughey
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
Brown Campbell
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Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
Napoleon Hill
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With the American failure came world failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
Vijay Mallya
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
Barry Ritholtz
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All actors should experience public failure.
Olivia Wilde
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I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me - and that I've made of myself - as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.
Marilyn Monroe
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
George Bernard Shaw
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
Judith Butler
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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.
Sting The Police
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I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.
Rakul Preet Singh
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Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
John C. Maxwell
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
Brian Tracy
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Failure usually works for me in the end.
David Hasselhoff
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey
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The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
Nancy Duarte
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If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
Bryan Cranston
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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
Albert Bandura
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
Walter Cronkite