Failure Quotes - page 6

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. (John Burroughs)
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. View quote
Allan Bloom
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. View quote
Jimmy Carr
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. View quote
William Empson
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure. View quote
Suki Waterhouse
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. View quote
Ferran Adria
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. View quote
Junot Diaz
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. (Daniel Dennett)
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. View quote
Desi Arnaz
Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness. View quote
Ian Caldwell
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
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. View quote
Denis Waitley
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. View quote
Jack Lemmon
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. View quote
Henry Kravis
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. View quote
Harold Ramis
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. (Laurence Housman)
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. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. View quote
Mike Ditka
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. View quote
Richard V. Allen
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. View quote
Robin Tunney