Failure Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Attitude
  • Develop
  • Schools

• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Failure
  • inspirational

• 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

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

  

  Sophocles
  • Failure
  • Stay
  • Falling Down

• Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Money
  • Stupid

• No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

  

  William James
  • Failure
  • Persons
  • Lows

• This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Search
  • Perfection
  • Divinity

• A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

  

  Bernard Iddings Bell
  • Education
  • Failure
  • Succeed

• I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Father
  • Fear
  • Couple

• 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
  • Important
  • Suffering
  • Failure

• The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Father

• 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
  • Society
  • Silence
  • Civilization

• Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

  

  William Penn
  • Authority
  • Failing
  • Example

• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Secret
  • Achievement

• The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Failure

• I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Death
  • Way
  • Crowd

• 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
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

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

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Attention
  • Intelligence
  • Guides

• Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.

  

  Chuck Thompson
  • Success
  • Education
  • United States

• Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Success
  • Failure

• I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Failure

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