Top 1200 Personal Failure Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

Most people are afraid of failure. I love failure because it tells me where to go next.

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of 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 (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.

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

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from not getting up

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as 'it' and not 'me'.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man....Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.

Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.