Failure Quotes
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
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While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
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In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.
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Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
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If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
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A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
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Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
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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.
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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
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A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
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I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
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Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.
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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.
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Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.