Quotes about Failure

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

“One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.”

“Failure has gone to his head.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.”

“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.”

“All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.”

“The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.”

“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

“Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.”

“When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.”

“I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'”

“The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“There's no pressure to strive to succeed on anything. I get to step into every single day and just enjoy the process, enjoy every moment, just be fully who I am and not feel failure in any way, but just be able to pursue success - and know that whatever happens, it is what it is.”

“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.”

“The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.”

“I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.”

“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”