Failure Quotes: Embracing Setbacks, Learning from Mistakes, and Rising Stronger
Embracing the Lessons of Failure
Failure is not the opposite of success; it is an integral part of the journey towards it. It is through failure that we learn, grow, and develop resilience. In this article, we celebrate the valuable lessons and growth that failure brings through a collection of quotes that inspire, motivate, and remind us of the importance of embracing setbacks, learning from mistakes, and rising stronger.
Failure is not something to be feared or avoided; it is an opportunity for growth and self-discovery. It teaches us valuable lessons, forces us to reassess our approach, and ultimately propels us towards success. Each failure is a stepping stone on the path to achievement, and it is through perseverance and a positive mindset that we can transform setbacks into stepping stones.
Embracing the Power of Failure: Quotes to Inspire and Reflect
Throughout history, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and leaders have shared their insights and reflections on the power of failure. Their quotes encapsulate the essence of resilience, learning, and the mindset required to overcome setbacks and forge ahead. Below, we present a collection of inspiring failure quotes that will encourage you to embrace failures as opportunities for growth, learn from your mistakes, and rise stronger in the face of adversity.
Every failure is a step to success.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.
For Trump, success always has a single father – himself. Failure has a hundred – everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The ‘deep state.’ Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn’t do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.
Failure usually works for me in the end.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
It’s probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it’s a failure.
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
It’s not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama’s Waterloo.
‘No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.’ I’ve made this my motto. I’ve internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn’t depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad ‘it was like the Special Olympics or something.’ Disability, by Obama’s definition, was about difference and failure.
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn’t handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn’t meant to be.
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.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Failure? Scared to death of it.
I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television. And I’ve had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I’ve done four shows, and only one of them was the ‘West Wing.’
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Failure is impossible.
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
I don’t know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they’ve got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
I – and I still consider myself, I’m sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn’t help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.
I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we’re always involved in fighting something. It’s tiresome.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
If I’ve got a message to the younger generation, it’s this: don’t be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.
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.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.
The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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.
A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It’s a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we’re losing a little bit of that right now.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
Most people are afraid of failure. I love failure because it tells me where to go next.
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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.
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.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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.
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.
Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls ‘black swans’ -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
I think one of the keys is to celebrate intelligent failures and when things don’t work, learn from those. Celebrate learning more than we celebrate the failure itself.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
You can’t please everyone, but I’ve always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You’ll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.
Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.
Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple… like, ‘Try something different,’ or, ‘Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.’
You’re going to fail. It’s how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
It isn’t easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.
I don’t have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian, you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure, especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
My Chinese name is Man Shing which means ‘ten thousand success.’ It’s a name that’s sure to set me up for failure.
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!
Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel, ‘Kiss Out,’ is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
From my point of view, a lot of the things that we’ve done over our entire career have always been a big failure because it was never the way that I planned it. But then there’s always upsides with it that turn out to be better or greater than the original plan.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
For years, media moguls and campaigns bankrolled by the rich have fed the lie that migrants are the cause of injustices propagated by the powerful: the failure to build housing, the strain on public services by cuts, the lack of secure jobs, the decline in real wages.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
Failure has always made me a very strong person.
I think I’ve failed every test I’ve ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
My reputation grows with every failure.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
I’ve learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you’ll feel like you’re a failure or when you’re disappointed in yourself.
Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.
What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being’s way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.
Just because you’re struggling with self-discipline doesn’t mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you’ll stick to your healthier habits – even when you don’t feel like it.
Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn’t watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.
Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.
With failure, you just try again.
I’m continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge, and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state’s failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
The probability of failure doesn’t matter to me.
All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There’s no assured success. There’s no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
To err is human, but it feels divine.
My motto is more, ‘If you want to find something new, look for something new!’ There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn’t in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
There’s no right or wrong, success or failure.
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.
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.
The only real failure is giving up.
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function – the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Failure will happen. It’s a normal part of the startup process.
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Failure’s not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment.
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.
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
I have always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Donald Trump got impeached for his Ukraine Plan A and the economy went down the tubes, thanks to his failure to deal with the Coronavirus.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
I suppose that fear of failure is what drives me on.
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that’s toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Like anyone, I’m scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
I’m living life as best I can – but I’m not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
As is well known, ‘McCarthyism’ was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people’s lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else’s success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.
My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.
As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.
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.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
There’s no such thing as failure – just waiting for success.
That’s me: success and failure don’t affect me.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
I’ve discovered people in my lifetime who are like, ‘I always wanted to sing but… ‘ It’s like, ‘Well then, did you try?’ My thing was always not caring about failure.
A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.
You can’t be afraid of failure and you can’t be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I’m a failure.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
I’ve become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is – in a distinctive way – a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price’s philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It’s something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Failure is a word that I simply don’t accept.
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
There’s a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now.
I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.
I don’t understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.
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.
Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.
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.’
As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
Don’t take too much comfort in the fact that you’re successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There’s no surety in life.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can’t easily recognize that they are the same.
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong – a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.
Pride is ugly. It says, ‘If you succeed, I am a failure.’
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.
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.
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn’t get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
Success and failure is temporary. So don’t let them get to you.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.
Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
Well, I think it’s too early to call Fallujah a failure.
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.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Whether you’re successful or not, you’ll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you’re really just setting yourself up for failure.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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.
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it’s better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don’t wait for something; just go for it.
My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It’s not easy dealing with it.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a ‘failure.’ In Silicon Valley, we call this ‘gaining experience.’ We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
Failure is what we’re all running from, we’re always running toward success with failure at our back.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
I’ve had great success and I’ve had catastrophic failure. It’s really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.
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.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it’s your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down.
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
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.
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
I have probably purchased fifty ‘hot tips’ in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don’t do it, it is not a good feeling. I don’t want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.
So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
I believe you must find the things in life that you love, and don’t let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes, but you’re never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don’t fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
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.
I don’t have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn’t allow myself to anymore.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It’s just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it’s still there. When you accept both of them, it’s like, ‘You know what? Don’t get too identified with success or too identified with failure – just be cool with them.’
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
Failure is always an option.
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done. Once I was married, I didn’t want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
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.
I don’t want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all, but Charlotte’s way better.
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?
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
The French elites’ strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
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.
If you show me someone who’s afraid of failure, I’ll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.
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.
Success is 99 percent failure.
It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Don’t be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
Nothing fails like failure.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington’s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can’t think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
It’s true that if it’s always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you’re a success, and if you don’t, you’re a failure, then you’re bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren’t many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven’t.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
I’ve struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a ‘prison of perfectionism,’ holding myself to a standard I couldn’t possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.
If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then one industry’s potential failure is another’s opportunity.
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.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I felt a failure because I couldn’t sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn’t hire me as a real writer.
Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn’t an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn’t able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Failure does not scare me.
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.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.
No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
If you accept failure, then you can improve on it. It’s funny though, because, on the flip side of the coin, I’d say that if you don’t accept failure, there is no failure.
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the summer of 1914 is a disturbing tale of the failure of the governing elites and the military, but also of diplomacy.
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
‘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.
For diabetes in particular, we know there’s a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn’t that be great?
Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
I expect either total success or total failure. That’s my lot in life.
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.’
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail.
One should accept failure, and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn again.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch of all I survey.
The only failure is not to try.
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
Yes, I’ve heard of the ‘Mad Men’ comparisons, but I like to think ‘The Hour’ has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
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.
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.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don’t know what they’re doing; they have no ideas… everything they do just is a failure.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.
It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness – not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit – wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.
I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
It’s not about the failure, it’s about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
Success is transient and so is 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.
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.’
People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don’t get failures, you’re not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Failure is a part of success.
Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I’m not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.
Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
I know acts and I’m not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it’s considered a failure and they’re dropped and that’s really a shame.
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
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.
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I’ve never considered failure.
If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.
Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises – in particular about prosperity, security – and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
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.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Don’t come home a failure.
Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.
A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I wouldn’t call Loopt a failure. It didn’t turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don’t regret it at all.
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.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama’s extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I’m not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
It’s the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.
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.
White America is tortured by black America’s failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.’
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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.
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama’s political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician – nay, human being – of our time.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn’t an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
There is always time for 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.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
War is failure of diplomacy.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I want you to know that focusing on someone else’s failure or success is the wrong way to live.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
Man is not made for defeat.
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
Success unshared is failure.
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
I believe only in art and failure.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn’t. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
I wanted to take away the fear of failure from the youngsters because when I came into the Indian team I faced that pressure.
In conclusion, failure quotes remind us that setbacks are not the end of the road but stepping stones on the path to success. They inspire us to embrace failure as an opportunity for growth, to learn from our mistakes, and to rise stronger and more resilient. Let these quotes resonate with you as you navigate the challenges and setbacks in your own journey, and may they serve as a reminder that failure is not the opposite of success but an essential part of it.
