Failure Quotes
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
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The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
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Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
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One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
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Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
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It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
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I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
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Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
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Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.
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I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
