Failure Quotes

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Failure is always an option.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.