Failure Quotes
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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Failure is a necessary part of success.
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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.
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
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Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn’t a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.
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What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.
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Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
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Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization23 and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.
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I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
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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.
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Without seeking truth it is unlikely you will find success. The truth very well might set you free, but it’s not always fun. People say they want the truth, but more accurately, they want the truth that is easy to hear. They don’t want the painful truths that don’t support our decisions or force us to accept we were wrong about something. But without truth, you will never be able to course-correct. Putting the company first and your bruised feelings second is an important step in saving your start-up from failure.
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The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.
