Failure Quotes

• I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

  

  David Cage
  • Always
  • Player
  • Designer

• I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Healthy

• The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failure
  • Cost

• I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Inspiring

• The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Success
  • Action
  • Failure

• There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

  

  Steve Hanke
  • Failure
  • Currency
  • Board

• There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

  

  John Popper
  • Trying
  • Failure

• Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Exposure

• 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.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Decisions

• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Reality
  • Times
  • Fail

• I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Confidence
  • Failure
  • Insecure

• The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • I Love
  • Guides

• When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Imagination
  • Emotions
  • Suffer

• TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM MARKS IN EACH OF YOUR CLASSES. IF A CLASS CURVE FALLS BELOW THE PERCENTILE OF FAILURES ALLOTTED TO IT, THE EFFICACY OF THE TEACHER MUST BE QUESTIONED. TEACHERS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSING STUDENTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Hand
  • Students
  • Teachers

• I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Failure
  • Virtue

• I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Failure
  • Reflection

• If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Desire
  • Mistake
  • Failure

• If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

  

  David Ambrose
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Achieved

• When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Choice

• Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Record
  • Helps

• But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.

  

  Michael Ryan
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Move

• Success without happiness is failure.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Happiness

• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Community

• God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Grow
  • Humiliation

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