Quotes About Failure

Often the difference between success and failure is belief.

Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed.

the design process is one that must accept innovation risk. Innovation risk is the chance that a new product, system, or service may fail. The larger the risk, the larger the reward. Similarly, the larger the innovation risk, the deeper the repercussions of failure.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Despite the fact that the New Deal was a failure, it remains the gold standard in liberal policy making.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

There must be something that fascinates us more when things go wrong.

She believed her campaign had failed her—not the other way around—and she wanted "to see who was talking to who, who was leaking to who," said

The candidate would blame her staff for failing to contain the damage, and, privately, they would fault her for failing to take the steps necessary to do that.

One thing I like to tell my clients is that the Chinese word for failure can be interpreted to mean "opportunity.

You set extremely high standards for yourself, and when you succeed, you ignore the success and immediately raise your standards. But when you fail, you won't let go of it. You keep punishing yourself, telling yourself you're worthless.

Andrew [Haswell Green]...thought of his impending travel on the brig. Of Samuel Tilden. Of why the friendship had vanished, the errors he must have made, too many signs of affection, or of desperation, neediness, the most appalling of all impressions to make on a fellow man. His only available course now was to put distance between his failures and his future, tighten the stranglehold on his feelings, and harden his heart protectively against the pain of further great mistakes.

We've all had our moments of weakness and failure. All of us. We've all suffered through dark nights of the soul.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

liberal science is nothing other than a selection process whose mission is to test beliefs and reject the ones that fail.

One of the biggest causes of suffering is social comparison," Coleman said. "Status anxiety is a huge component of this kind of self-torture. Have I achieved enough? Am I a failure? Am I a success?

Winston Churchill's great remark that "success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

We trespassed in the city of the dead, and all our skills and talents counted for nothing.

Patience is the prime virtue. If you hurry, you will fail. And failure is painful. You must always relax and concentrate on the task in hand.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.

Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15