Failure Quotes - page 67

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. (Anchee Min)
It is the older generation who foster in a child an early and most unnecessary sense of guilt, of sinfulness and of wrongdoing. So much emphasis is laid upon petty little things that are not really wrong, but are annoying to the parent or teacher, that a true sense of wrong (which is the recognition of failure to preserve right relations with the group) gets overlaid and is not recognised for what it is. View quote
Alice Bailey
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative". View quote
Will Self
Is it dangerous to claim that parents have no power at all (other than genetic) to shape their child's personality, intelligence, or the way he or she behaves outside the family home? ... A confession: When I first made this proposal ten years ago, I didn't fully believe it myself. I took an extreme position, the null hypothesis of zero parental influence, for the sake of scientific clarity. ... The establishment's failure to shoot me down has been nothing short of astonishing. View quote
Judith Rich Harris
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another! View quote
Takeshi Kitano
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure. View quote
Judith McNaught
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. View quote
Brett Favre
I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word. View quote
James Mattis
Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. View quote
David Mamet
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. (David Mamet)
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
One must forgive people their failure to understand. Good people are often guilty of faulty judgment.It is essential to be lenient with beginner's mistakes. View quote
Helena Roerich
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her. View quote
Edith Wharton
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. View quote
Trent Reznor
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
Ulysses, he thought, had not told him all the truth about the Talisman. He had told him that it had disappeared and that the galaxy was without it, but he had not told him that for many years its power and glory had been dimmed by the failure of its custodian to provide linkage between the people and the force. (Clifford D. Simak)
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. View quote
Henry Cavill
My life has been nothing but a failure. View quote
Claude Monet
Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. View quote
Rob Zombie