Quotes about Failure

“My worst fashion failure was when I wore tight PVC pants, and I had a show in Eugene, Oregon... my pants split down the center.”

“When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.”

“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

“There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.”

“I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.”

“I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.”

“Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.”

“Man is not made for defeat.”

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”

“The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.”

“With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.”

“Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.”

“All the world loves a good loser.”

“I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.”

“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.”

“This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.”

“Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.”

“I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.”

“A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.”

“We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.”

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”