Failure Quotes - Page 2

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce)

Dominic Stansberry

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

Mark Batterson

In Jesus the performance pendulum stops — both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.

Melissa B. Kruger

You have a choice! Deal with life's problems ... or life will deal with you.

Lou Silluzio

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

James Purdy

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Mark Batterson

Let us be thankful for the fools,' Mark Twain wrote with typically dark humor in 1897. 'But for them the rest of us could not succeed.' Of all the paradoxes of failure in America, surely this is the darkest. Long ago, we saw through old fables of rags to riches; it is still fun to dream, but we know that we are partaking of a cultural myth. But if we do not quite believe in that kind of success, our faith in the myths of failure is unshaken. We are merrily cynical about whether the average tycoon really tugged on those bootstraps, but we still believe with deadly seriousness that the reasons for failure are usually individual-- "in the man." Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream; it is the foundation of it. The American Dream gives each of us the chance to be a born loser.

Scott A. Sandage

One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

Maureen N. McLane

A lack of planning leads to failure.

Sunday Adelaja

Every individual can reach their greatest potential with enough encouragement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as we confider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.

Ahmed Alibage

Think as if failure is not a possibility.

Debasish Mridha

We learn from education, experience and people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We teach our children to study hard, to strive to succeed but do we teach them that it's okay to fail? That life is about accepting yourself? That there is no stigma in seeking help? Our Indian culture is based on worshipping our parents. We grow up listening to words like respect, obedience and tradition. Can we not add the words communication, unconditional love and support to this list?I look at the WHO research. The highest rate of suicide in India is among the age group of 15 to 29. Do we even talk to our teens about this?That evening, I am standing in the balcony, sipping some coffee and looking at the sunset. The children have taken the dogs and gone down to play on the beach. I spot my son. He is standing on the sand, right at the edge of the ocean and is flying a blue kite.The kite goes high and then swings low till it almost seems to fall into the water and all I want to say to him is that soon he will see that life is just like flying a kite. Sometimes you have to leave it loose, sometimes you have to hold on tight, sometimes your kite will fly effortlessly, sometimes you will not be able to control it and even when you are struggling to keep it afloat and the string is cutting into your hand, don't let go.The wind will change in your favour once again, my son. Just don't let go..

Twinkle Khanna

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

Brandon Sanderson

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Sunday Adelaja

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

Arianna Huffington

So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

Orrin Woodward

Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.

Miya Yamanouchi

Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the customers and confused the other half, and the coin boxes did not look as they should, and [rich, noble] people were complaining about him, and he couldn't look at anybody, and [redacted] was dead, and Oscar was odd.'What if he doesn't keep me?

Anne Ursu

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will come up with different excuses from the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Or else I'll be interned in a poorhouse, content with my utter failure, mingling with the riffraff who believed they were geniuses when in fact they were just beggars with dreams, mixing with the anonymous mass of people who had neither the strength to triumph nor the power to turn their defeats into victories.

Fernando Pessoa

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

Matthew Kelly

If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed.

Auliq-Ice

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.

Felicia Day

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Neal Shusterman

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

James A. Michener

… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.(Seth Abrams)

Carol S. Dweck

Fear not failure but success.

Debasish Mridha

Don’t stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success.

Kevin J. Donaldson

Failure is so much more interesting.

Garth Risk Hallberg

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

Chris Prentiss

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.

Alysia Abbott

It's important to undermine yourself and create a level of difficulty so the work doesn't come too easily. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high.

Carrie Brownstein

What better way could we teach our children the importance of learning to push forward despite failure than to openly embrace in the education system Trial and Learn as our truly only human learning process. In doing so, we eliminate the stigma of failure and view it as an important part of the process of learning.

Martha Char Love

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

Oli Anderson

If you have not failed, you have not really tried.

Colleen S. Myers

The greatness of the enterprise does not always ensure success, but at least ensures glory.

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

Orhan Pamuk

And sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you try, how persuasive you can be, how much skill you have... you can't have everything. Sometimes you just can't win.""No. Sometimes you don't win." He gets to his feet, and Red stands beside him. "But I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from trying.

daystar721

you can't fight with who you are

sajjad ali noor

Don’t give up! Keep trying, your victory is certain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With diligent, you will master the act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Failing is never too early, success is never too late.

Paul Bamikole

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We only need grace to get up, whenever we fall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you fail, never give up. Keep trying, you will succeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

E.M. Forster

Never say that anything is hopeless, Tristal, until it has irreparably failed. And always remember that Elamm’ may perform any action, though it may seem impossible to you.

Benita J. Prins

Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

William Ritter

She didn't like it," he said immediately."Of course she did.""She didn't like it," he insisted. "She didn't have a good time."He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression."I feel far away from her," he said. "It's hard to make her understand.""You mean about the dance?""The dance?" He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. "Old sport, the dance is unimportant.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There were the signed, spiral-bound Spirit-in-the-Woods yearbooks from three summers in a row and the aerial photograph of everyone at camp the second summer. In it, Ethan's feet were planted on Jule's head, and Jule's feet were planted on Goodman's head, and so on and so on. And didn't it always go like that-body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

Meg Wolitzer

Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance.

Myles Connolly

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

Karen Karbo

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

J.K. Rowling

When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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