Quotes about Failure

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“War is failure of diplomacy.”

“I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.”

“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.”

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

“The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.”

“The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.”

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“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.”

“America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.”

“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”

“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”

“Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

“With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.”

“The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.”

“The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”