Failure Quotes
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Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
Mark Frauenfelder -
As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.
John Rampton
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Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.
George C. Wolfe -
The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
James R. Clapper -
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Chris Hedges -
For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
Jim Lovell -
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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
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Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
Jim Sturgess -
Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
Oswald Chambers -
Failure is a part of success.
Hank Aaron -
My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
Judy Garland -
Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.
Danielle Trussoni -
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
Javier Bardem
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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney -
Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
Robert H. Schuller -
An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
Dale Carnegie -
I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.
Kristin Cavallari -
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair -
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens
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There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
Yami Gautam -
Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
Fabrizio Moreira -
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering -
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
Mandy Moore