Failure Quotes

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

With failure, you just try again.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there."

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.