Failure Quotes

• We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Failure
  • Afraid
  • Excellence

• 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
  • Success
  • Advance
  • Barriers

• I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Paris

• 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
  • Rejection
  • Claim
  • Hesitation

• To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Justice
  • Animal
  • Social

• The only risk of failure is promotion.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Promotion

• 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
  • Failure
  • Wise

• All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

  

  Edward Dowden
  • World
  • Success
  • Failure

• You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Writer

• Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Success
  • Education
  • Benefits

• Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Failure

• The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Justice
  • Failure
  • Nostalgia

• I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Failure
  • I Do
  • Psyched

• Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Purpose
  • Failure
  • Drifting

• The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Career
  • Failure
  • Adversity

• 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
  • Believe
  • Differences
  • Employee

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

  

  William McFee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Realizing

• If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Purpose
  • Failure
  • Drifting

• Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

  

  Cara Santana
  • Failure
  • Risks
  • Inevitable

• Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

  

  Lev Yilmaz
  • Trying
  • Character
  • True

• Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Nature
  • Animal

• 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

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