Failure Quotations | Page 2

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

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

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.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

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.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. 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.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

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

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

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

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.