Failure Quotes

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

I believe only in art and failure.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.