Failure Quotes
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Alana Stewart
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
Oprah Winfrey
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Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
Jerry Bruckheimer
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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.
Charles Stanley
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Benjamin E. Mays
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No one is beat till he quits,No one is through till he stops,No matter how hard Failure hits,No matter how often he drops,A fellow's not down till he liesIn the dust and refuses to rise.
Edgar Guest
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He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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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.
Matt Emmons
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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
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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.
Kahlil Gibran
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
George Canning
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A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.
Chin-Ning Chu
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
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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
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
Pat Buchanan
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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.
Lisa Unger
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Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
Daniel Inouye
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Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
Pete Sessions
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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.
Jeff Sessions