Failure Quotes
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Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
Penn Jillette
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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
Eric Weiner
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It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
Ela Bhatt
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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
Steve Harvey
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Without failure there is no achievement.
John C. Maxwell
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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
Simon Hoggart
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
Ernest Hemingway
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
Chuck Thompson
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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
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No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
Richard Aldington
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Failure had to change him. When you ask what my role is: From an attorney position, it's having the right systems in place.
Aaron Cohen
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If I can see it, it's a failure.
Bill Buxton
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Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.
Michael Malone
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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
Craig Davidson
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Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan Williams
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Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
Cory Booker
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
George Horace Lorimer
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Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
Cathy Rigby
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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
Charles Dickens
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Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.
Nicholas John Frost