Failure Quotes

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly."We ...

But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then ...

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes hav...

Colin "I'm just--I'm just a failure. what if this is it? -----andI never do anything significant and...

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd fai...

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for indi...

War remains the decisive human failure.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committe...

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made...

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committe...

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls ...

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the pr...

Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wa...

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to fo...

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fat...

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented real...

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Maste...

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perce...

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance betw...

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly ...

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try agai...

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your...

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right....

It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if...

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...

Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...

For what is more lovable than failure?

Failure, it occurred to him, was the secular equivalent of sin. Modern secular man was born into a w...

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater bene...

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to ...

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who at...

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you eve...

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems t...

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and...

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

Because human nature never changes.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they c...

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you of...

What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches u...

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one th...

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forg...

When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice c...

We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we ha...

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick wall...

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success ca...

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any m...

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between suc...

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you...

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t...

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it fa...

His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and h...

To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and h...

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we ...

Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit ...

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to m...

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho...

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail bette...