Failure Quotes
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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. Maxwell -
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
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet -
You learn more from failure than you do from success.
Nic Offer !!! -
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 -
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino -
Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.
Katherine Cecil Thurston -
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.
Abi Morgan
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I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
Bruce Bartlett -
Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees. Success to failure, Just a matter of degrees. Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees...
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw -
When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of the imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
Adrian Rogers -
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
D. A. Carson
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
Sophocles -
War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
Jesse Ventura -
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
James Dyson -
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law -
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
Isaac Stern -
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 -
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
LeAnn Rimes -
The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.
Napoleon Hill