Failure Quotes

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Translation is the art of failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

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.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

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

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The only failure is not to try.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.