Quotes about Failure

“That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.”

“Success is always less funny than failure.”

“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”

“We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.”

“If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.”

“Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

“It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.”

“The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.”

“It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.”

“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

“Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn't get done.”

“The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.”

“Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.”

“A life which does not go into action is a failure.”

“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.”

“You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.”

“If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.”

“I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'”

“If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.”

“The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.”

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”