Failure Quotes
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.
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When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
Chad Hurley -
The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'
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The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.
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Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
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Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
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In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
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You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
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I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. The loss taught me not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.
