Failure Quotes
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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 -
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
Napoleon Hill
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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
John Barrymore -
A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
R. Edward Freeman -
Failure is our most important product.
R. W. Johnson -
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma -
The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.
Bill Bartmann -
Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
Bran Ferren
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I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
Aja Brown -
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.
Bill Vaughan -
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
“Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.”
C Robert Cargill -
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. Maxwell -
Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
J_K_Bharavi
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed' - and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather -
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Douglas Coupland -
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 -
If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
Napoleon Hill -
If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
Mario Andretti
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Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.
Bill Struth -
Learning from experience, however, can be complicated. It can be much more difficult to learn from success than from failure. If we fail, we think carefully about the precise cause. Success can indiscriminately reinforce all our prior actions.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.
Alison Levine -
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Jesse Jackson