Failure Quotes - page 9

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. (Karen Armstrong)
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. View quote
Oscar Wilde
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. View quote
Robert Fisk
To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down. View quote
John Ashcroft
Failure is part of the process of success. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is the formula for all winners. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. (Earl Warren)
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley-accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance-will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done. View quote
Neal Stephenson
Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection... View quote
Soichiro Honda
Success is 99 percent failure. View quote
Soichiro Honda
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. View quote
Terry Eagleton
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. View quote
Elon Musk
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural. (Sri Chinmoy)
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. View quote
Benjamin Mkapa
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. View quote
William L. Shirer
The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah