Quotes About Failure

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.