Failure Quotes

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people a...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people ...

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the t...

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to st...

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!...

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her...

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a brid...

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and acr...

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and...

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shap...

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other p...

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one...

Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are de...

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and ev...

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed...

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a...

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the ...

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorio...

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and ...

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could...

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes...

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implode...

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do ...

She didn't like it," he said immediately."Of course she did.""She didn't like it," he insisted. "She...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and...

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writin...

I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to b...

My past is everything I failed to be.

When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memor...

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weep...

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this...

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of b...

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors...

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failur...

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you r...

Success is fucking up on your own terms.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone...

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was a...

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live ...

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failu...

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed els...

It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least wh...

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee...

...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all po...

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge ...

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short spa...

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of ...

You have to be free to fail in this world.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught ...

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or...

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in th...

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and olde...

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mis...

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the...

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to...

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societi...

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that wo...

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing o...