Top 100 A Failure Quotes
#1. I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#2. I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".
Andy Weir
#3. You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.
Joel Osteen
#4. There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.
Steve Hanke
#5. The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.
Michael Novak
#6. I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
Slavoj Zizek
#7. Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Theodor Herzl
#8. I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#9. No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Oswald Chambers
#10. That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.
Maya Angelou
#11. My hard work was expected rather than exceptional. It's not that my dad ever told me or even alluded to the fact that I was a failure, but my actions no longer got his unprompted attention or praise, so I constantly felt that I wasn't doing enough. That I wasn't enough.
Lily Collins
#12. Survival is running from death.
Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try!
Fereidoon Yazdi
#14. It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.
Saul Alinsky
#15. Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.
Tony McCoy
#17. For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
Jason Silva
#18. Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
Paul Twitchell
#19. Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Sometimes the end of a relationship isn't a failure at all, but rather a release for both people so that they can travel on their own true paths. Some relationships are only meant to teach us lessons about love.
Laura Lynne Jackson
#21. So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they're not demonstrating a failure or a lack of energy. They're simply doing what they're constitutionally suited for (237).
Susan Cain
#22. Success is a process, but a failure is a forward step for success.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Nothing beats a failure but a try.
R.J. Smith
#24. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
#25. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
Chinua Achebe
#26. God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.
Chris Oyakhilome
#27. If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.
Stormie O'martian
#29. The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.
Stephane Hessel
#30. The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.
John Gregory Dunne
#31. Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.
Cameron Conaway
#32. I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.
Hanif Kureishi
#33. It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
Zoe Heller
#34. A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#35. I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko
#36. Whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure.
Peter Straub
#37. I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
Steven Pinker
#38. My poetry is often criticized for a failure to communicate, but I take issue with this; my intention is to communicate and my feeling is that a poem that communicates something that's already known by the reader is not really communicating anything to him and in fact shows a lack of respect for him.
John Ashbery
#39. If you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success
James Cameron
#40. A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
Richard Carson
#41. Success could be defined as the ability to go on persevering even when it seems that there are no possibilities left. Each failure is not truly a failure, just another possibility explored and found wanting. We never truly run out of possibilities for success, just imagination to find them.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#42. I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
Jasper Carrott
#43. When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.
Wallace D. Wattles
#44. The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.
John C. Maxwell
#45. I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!
Gustave Flaubert
#46. And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
Harvey Korman
#47. If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#49. You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
Mark Ryan
#50. I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.
Helen Garner
#51. I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.
Felicia Day
#52. As far as the welfare of every other living form on earth was concerned, the human project was not just a failure, it was a mistake from the very beginning.
Ian McEwan
#53. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
Orison Swett Marden
#54. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
C.N. Bovee
#56. According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves to the struggle unto death. Although this struggle is a failure, according to Hegel, if someone actually dies.
Tamara Faith Berger
#58. There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
Ken Kesey
#59. Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors
#61. Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#62. The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
Moshe Katsav
#63. I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
Alexander Theroux
#65. The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.
Ilana Mercer
#66. The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.
Ashly Lorenzana
#67. We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
Maya Angelou
#68. My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.
Jodi Picoult
#69. Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Serj Tankian
#70. Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
Rick Warren
#71. There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
Patrick Stump
#72. People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.
Richard Holbrooke
#74. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive.
Regina King
#75. There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
Marvin Minsky
#76. He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich
#77. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.
Harpo Marx
#78. I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we had to form an equally strong and enduring connection to each other. Any gap between us was a failure. Success would come when neither of us knew where one ended and the other began.
Gary Shteyngart
#79. 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.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#80. When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.
Thomas S. Monson
#81. I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
George Burns
#82. Colin "I'm just
I'm just a failure. what if this is it?
andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?"
Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. "See, this is why you need to believe in God.
John Green
#83. 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.
Tony Robbins
#84. The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H.L. Mencken
#85. HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN A FAILURE? LET'S MAKE YOUR DEATH A SUCCESS!
Jean Teule
#86. When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.
John Novak
#87. When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
Marilyn Monroe
#88. War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
Martin Firrell
#89. I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.
Slavoj Zizek
#90. Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things.
Atul Gawande
#91. It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
Mark Twain
#92. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
#93. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B.C. Forbes
#94. You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn
#95. Never a failure,always a lesson
Rihanna
#96. Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Errol Flynn
#97. It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming.
In DDNOS, the ANP is always present, even when another part is in control of the behavior and feelings.
Alison Miller
#98. Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.
Robert F. Engle
#99. 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
#100. No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
Richard Aldington
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