Failure Quotes - page 3

I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. (Oprah Winfrey)
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. View quote
Erik Erikson
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. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. View quote
Thomas Edison
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. View quote
Quentin Crisp
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. View quote
Bill Cosby
I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. View quote
Eleanor Catton
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)
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. View quote
Knute Rockne
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. View quote
Harry S. Truman
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. View quote
Samuel Smiles
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. View quote
Branch Rickey
Translation is the art of failure. View quote
Umberto Eco
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. View quote
George Eliot
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. View quote
John Dewey
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. View quote
Ayn Rand
Success and failure are equally disastrous. (Tennessee Williams)
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success. View quote
Raymond Chandler
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. View quote
Ambrose Bierce