Failure Quotes
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
Peter Morgan
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
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It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
Anthony Robbins
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For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
Brady Udall
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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
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If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
Adam Lashinsky
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
Emil Cioran
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Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.
Cat Cora
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
John Ortberg
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Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
David Petraeus
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
August Strindberg
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In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
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Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Ziad Abdelnour
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When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
Jane McGonigal
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
William Arthur Ward
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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
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Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
Baltasar Gracian
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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
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
Chuck Thompson
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Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
Kent Brantly
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee