Failure Quotes
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I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
Kimbal Musk
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
Marianne Williamson
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
Thomas A. Edison
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
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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
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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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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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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
William Arthur Ward
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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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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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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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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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Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Ziad Abdelnour
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
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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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People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Noah Weinberg
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
Chuck Thompson
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Without failure there is no achievement.
John C. Maxwell
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale
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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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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.
Ashley Purdy