Top 993 Failure Quotes & Sayings

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

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

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

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.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

The most resilient companies foster a pervasive culture of innovation at all levels of the organization - one that values risk-taking, embraces experimentation and considers failure an inevitable part of thinking boldly.

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

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I don't care about what people think about me that don't know me. But the one thing that bothers me of all the places is the general perception was that I was a failure at USC as a head coach.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

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

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

My fears are never about failure - it's about extreme success.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

With failure, you just try again.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Failure and triumphs are parts of life.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

You have to be able to bounce back and deal with disappointment, failure and weaknesses, and a lot of that happens behind the scenes for teams that are very successful.

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

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

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.

I think it's about failure recovery and how you perform at a high level in front of a lot of people. I think that sets you up for success on the big stage.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

All the world loves a good loser.