Quotes about Failure

“Never permit failure to become a habit.”

“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”

“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.”

“Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.”

“Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.”

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

“Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.”

“I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.”

“Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.”

“A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.”

“The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.”

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

“The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”

“In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.”

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”

“If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.”

“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.”

“Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.”

“So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.”

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