Failure Quotes
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player
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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
R.J. Rushdoony
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
Chen Shui-bian
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Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Jerry West
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko
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All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
R.J. Rushdoony
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
Felicity Kendal
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Seth Godin
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
Irwin Redlener
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I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
Kristen Stewart
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
Pat Summitt
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Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.
Claude C. Hopkins
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
Dominick Dunne
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
Sam Harris
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
Ottmar Hitzfeld