Failure Quotes
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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner
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Failure is a part of my job, but I always see it as an opportunity to approach my work differently.
Sarah Kate Ellis
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"Failure" isn't a word I really use.
Sebastian Roche
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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
Charles Dickens
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Your theory is true, to a degree. The great teams are the ones that keep improving when they're having success. It's easier to handle failure than success.
Dan Monson
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The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
Marianne Williamson
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
Charlie Jane Anders
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
Ben Lerner
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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
Elon Musk
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
Dustin Hoffman
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
Billy Dee Williams
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No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
Thomas A. Edison
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
Mother Teresa
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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
Brennan Manning
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Absence of failure does not constitute success.
Chris Alexander
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I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.
Esther Dyson
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The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Geoffrey Boycott
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
Thomas Sowell
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
Boyd K. Packer
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Tom Kite
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Success without fulfillment is failure.
Anthony Robbins