Failure Quotes

• Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Past
  • Wisdom
  • Failure

• People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

  

  William McFee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Realizing

• Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Failure
  • Speech
  • Lamon

• There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Failure
  • Silly
  • Option

• Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Failure

• In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Help
  • Party
  • Eyes

• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Faith
  • Virtues
  • Young People

• The only failure is not to try.

  

  George Clooney
  • Trying
  • Acting
  • Inspiring

• I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

  

  John Battelle
  • Mind
  • High
  • Passion

• I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Success

• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  

  George Eliot
  • Failure
  • Perseverance
  • Grander

• I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Learning
  • Feel
  • Tolerate

• Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

  

  Sophocles
  • Failure
  • Stay
  • Falling Down

• You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Success
  • Failure

• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

  

  Michael Korda
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Succeed

• Back in 2014, when no one else was planning how to win the referendum, @DouglasCarswell talked tactics at the @Tate. He said: 'We can win in one of two circumstances: a visible failure of the renegotiation, or one of the two main party leaders being neutral.' In the event, we got both. Thanks @jeremycorbyn.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Party
  • Planning
  • Thanks

• I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Taken
  • Failure

• Failure is our most important product.

  

  R. W. Johnson
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Products

• A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Part

• It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Success
  • Way
  • Ability

• Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

  

  Arthur Nersesian
  • Failure
  • Expectations
  • Disappointed

• Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• I have a congenital aversion to failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Failure
  • Aversion
  • Congenital

• Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • People
  • Failure

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