Failure Quotes
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Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.
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Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
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Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
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I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
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No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
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He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
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I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
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Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
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Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.
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In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.
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Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
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Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.
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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
