Quotes About Failure

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Failure is the true test of greatness

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?