Quotes About Failure

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister's Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What's wrong with me?

Failure is the test of greatness.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.