Failure Quotes

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

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.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

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 failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.