Quotes about Failure

“What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.”

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.”

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

“You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.”

“I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.”

“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.”

“Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.”

“I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.”

“It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.”

“Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.”

“If learners do not have a roof under which they can learn we are already setting them up for failure.”

“We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.”

“In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.”

“Translation is the art of failure.”

“Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.”

“Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.”

“I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.”

“Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.”

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

“Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.”

“It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.”