Quotes about Failure

“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.”

“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.”

“Not failure, but low aim is sin.”

“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”

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

“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”

“Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.”

“Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.”

“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”

“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”

“You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.”

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

“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.”

“In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.”

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

“A love of nature is a consolation against failure.”

“I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.”

“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.”

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”

“Failure is a part of success.”

“When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.”