Failure Quotes

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Any man can make mistakes,
but only an idiot persists in his error.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

There are no failures - only feedback.

Failure is not an option!

True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.