Quotes About Failure

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

It's all about perseverance. I just had this attitude … where failure was just not an option.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.