Failure Quotes

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

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

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

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.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

My reputation grows with every failure.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Success is 99 percent failure.