Failure Quotes

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.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

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.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.