Top 1200 Overcoming Failure Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

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

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

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

What is failure? We can’t possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that’s because they’re judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what’s a success and what’s a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

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

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

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

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

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

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

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers testifies to a failure of imagination - the capacity to see into unfamiliar lives, motives, feelings - and this failure must, at least in part, be the failure of the teaching of literature in the schools.

It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure.

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

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

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

The truth is that we have all gone through failure. I have personally as well as professionally experienced failure.

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.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

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

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

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

Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

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

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars

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

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

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

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

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.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

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