Quotes About Failure

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

Any action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el atentando.

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

In other words, I would say that the drive to blame ourselves or others comes from our inability to stay present with what is, because the sense of failure challenges us. It's uncomfortable, unpleasant.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." —Samuel Beckett

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

I believe only in art and failure.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.