Quotes
Quotes about Failure
I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?".
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humilityâthat priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Failure is an event, never a person.
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.
