Failure Quotes
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn
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I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.
Elizabeth Scott
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After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
Ada Leverson
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There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
John Popper
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The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
Ernest Shackleton
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Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.
Georgia Harkness
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To think of failure is to fail.
Arthur Saxon
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Bram Stoker
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I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
Evan Tanner
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama
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How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?
Chad Pennington
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Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
Ernest Sosa
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The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.
Eugen Herrigel
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Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
Catherine Ponder
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
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Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
Sanya Richards-Ross
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I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.
Todd Solondz
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
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All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
William Faulkner
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Sidney Hook
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One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
Kevin Powers