Quotes About Failure

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Don't let success go to your heads and don't let failure into your hearts.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.

when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists

Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.