Failure Quotes
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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.
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Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.
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I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
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This day’s failure wasn’t at all about lacking brains; it was about will. It was about ownership. It was about not having much experience or interest in seeing tasks through to completion.
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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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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
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Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground.
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The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.
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I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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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.
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential.
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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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.
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I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the viability of what they call commercial space in light of the failure. I tell them space is hard: this is what happens early in a program with new technology.
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The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
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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
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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
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I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
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If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
