Failure Quotes
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I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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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.
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It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
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Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.
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Success is failure inside out.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
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Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
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If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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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.
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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.
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Until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success...
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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.
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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
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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.
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
