Failure Quotes
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
Lincoln Steffens -
As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
Rick Pitino -
Until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.
Mary Barnett Gilson -
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
Sophocles -
Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
Bran Ferren -
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Robert H. Schuller -
It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
Walt Disney
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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
Dalai Lama -
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. Maxwell -
You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don't wish it the best, then you're only holding on to its failure, you're only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it's not about you anymore.
Jason Mraz -
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
Joanne Rowling -
If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
Anne Wojcicki -
Failure is not a disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one... My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.
Craig Ferguson
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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
John David Washington -
Failure is our most important product.
R. W. Johnson -
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band -
I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
Aja Brown -
My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
Claude Monet -
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
Charles Dickens
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It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.
Kimbal Musk -
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
Napoleon Hill -
Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner . . . The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.
Jane Roberts