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Famous Quotes
- Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
- Natalie Goldberg on Failure
- Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
- J. K. Rowling on Failure
- Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
- Jack Lemmon on Failure
- Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
- Denis Waitley on Failure
- Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
- Charles Horton Cooley on Failure
- Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
- William Howard Taft on Failure
- Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- Mike Murdock on Failure
- Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
- Failure too is a form of death.
- Graham Greene on Failure
- Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Og Mandino on Failure
- Failure's a natural part of life.
- John Malkovich on Failure
- Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
- Billy Dee Williams on Failure
- Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
- Alastair Campbell on Failure
- Failure? Scared to death of it.
- Ryan Seacrest on Failure
- Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C. S. Lewis on Failure
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Failure
- Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
- Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
- Douglas Wood on Failure
- Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
- Frederick Smith on Failure
- Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
- Charles Stanley on Failure
- Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
- James M. Baldwin on Failure
- Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
- Phyllis Schlafly on Failure
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
- Mary Kay Ash on Failure
- For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
- Iain Duncan Smith on Failure
- Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
- Lee H. Hamilton on Failure
- Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
- Denis Waitley on Failure
- Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
- Samuel Beckett on Failure
- Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
- James Russell Lowell on Failure
- Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
- Arlie Russell Hochschild on Failure
- Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
- Rupert Holmes on Failure
- He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
- James Lane Allen on Failure
- He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Paul Tillich on Failure
- Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
- Davy Crockett on Failure
- His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
- Oliver Hudson on Failure
- Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
- Dirk Benedict on Failure
- How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
- Harold Ramis on Failure
- However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Failure
- Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
- Alvin Adams on Failure
- I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
- Slavoj Zizek on Failure
- I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
- Jonah Hill on Failure
- I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
- James Cash Penney on Failure
- I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
- Andrew Vachss on Failure
- I believe only in art and failure.
- I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan on Failure
- I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
- I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope on Failure
- I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
- Jeremy Irons on Failure
- I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
- I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Oprah Winfrey on Failure
- I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
- David Walliams on Failure
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