Quotes about Failure

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

“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 guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.”

“Attaching yourself to success and failure too much is not healthy and good for you. It is better to focus your energy in reinventing yourself as an actor with every film.”

“Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.”

“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”

“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.”

“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”

“Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.”

“Failure is impossible.”

“There's no right or wrong, success or failure.”

“If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.”

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

“Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.”

“Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.”

“Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.”

“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.”

“Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.”

“Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it's always been a sign for me to go down another path.”

“While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.”