Failure Quotes
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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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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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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.
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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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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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Failure is a necessary part of success.
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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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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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Failure is impossible.
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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.
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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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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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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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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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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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The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
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I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.
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You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.
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I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
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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.
