Quotes about failure

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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

“Failure is good only when you have time to spare, but useless if you want to get everything done on time. In reality, no one has that time to spare!”

“If you don’t give up, You still have a Chance to Win. Giving up is a Great Failure.”

“It is unimaginable how much the peoples of the region pay for the failure of a strong, efficient and integrated Maghreb union.”

“Failure isn't Fatal”

“Failure does not mean you are a failure… it just means you have not succeeded…yet.
Motivation,
Drive,
Willingness,
Practice,
Fearlessness,
Tirelessness,
Focus,
Persistance,
Competitiveness
and
Ability to see things from Both Sides,
will be your
Stepping Stones
to becoming
Triumphant.”

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

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

“There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?”

“During our lives… we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.”

“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure.”

“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”

“… and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.”

“Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.”

“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”

“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”

“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

“Compromise built upon compromise equals failure.”

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”

“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”

“If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”

“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”

“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?”

“The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said…. Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.”

“In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.”

“Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..”

“Someone else's success is not your failure.”

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.”

“Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.”

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

“The key to success is failure”

“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

“Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.”

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

“The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”

“premature design commitment is a design failure mode”

“I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?”

“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.”

“It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

“Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.”

“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”

“Failure is just a few seconds away from success.”

“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”

“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.”

“If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”

“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to… failure.”

“It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.”

“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”

“Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.”

“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”

“there is moss on the walls
and the stain of thought and failure and
waiting”

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”

“Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

“The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story”

“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.”

“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”

“For every failure, there's an alternative
course of action. You just have to find it.
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.”

“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.”

“When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.”

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”

“Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?”

“success is 99% failure”

“If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.”

“The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.”

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

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

“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?”

“don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!”

“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”

“Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats”

“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”