Best 2776 quotes in «failure quotes» category

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

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.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

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.

I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.