Top 100 After Failure Quotes
#1. You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.
Edwin Land
#2. Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#3. Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
John C. Maxwell
#4. The Most successful industry of the last forty years has been built on failure after failure after failure.
Tim Harford
#5. 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.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#6. What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?
Brandon Sanderson
#7. After failure, don't worry much. There will always be more opportunities and second chances.
Auliq Ice
#8. When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
Jane McGonigal
#9. Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?
Megan Chance
#10. A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Steve Backley
#11. Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Junot Diaz
#12. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.
Thomm Quackenbush
#13. ( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure ( ... )
Vladimir Nabokov
#14. and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After
James Thayer
#15. On July 2nd, 1776, after the failure of all attempts to reconcile with England, the Continental Congress passed the resolution proposed by Richard Henry Lee for independence.
Darwyn Hassert
#16. You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#17. In life; don't go chasing after everything, or if you go for something, never doubt and miss the step, Or else you will miss a trick of the tail and lose everything.
Auliq Ice
#18. The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.
William Ritter
#19. How you handle Failure, determines your success.
How you rise after a fall is going to define you.
I don't care how dedicated you are, I want to know how OBSESSED can you be.
I don't LOVE what I do, I LIVE it.
Harsh Malik
#20. Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
Sabaa Tahir
#21. I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
Emanuel Steward
#22. My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
Dorothy Day
#24. A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn't married, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#25. Newsflash: every relationship a person has ends in failure, save for one. Maybe two if you count getting remarried after they kick off, but the point is, we all go in with a ninety-whatever percent failure rate.
Drew Hayes
#26. So after that I had a new rule. If I'm hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I'm in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that's a rule I still follow today.
Robert Greene
#27. My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano
#28. What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market liberalism. It ended decades of naive, uncritical faith in the market looking after itself. It does not!
Asne Seierstad
#29. Failing is great! Isn't it? I mean, it sets you free and, after all, failures are the pillars of success. So, you must fail!
Abhishek Ratna
#30. I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
Debra Winger
#31. To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#32. I've had many failures in terms of technological ... business ... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#33. When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.
Akshay Kumar
#34. Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
Justin Guarini
#35. It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly
#36. My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
Jeremy Lloyd
#37. You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. The miracle, upside-down work of God is that our failure isn't an obstacle, it's an opportunity to remember to sink into God. Not having what it takes is not a liability, it's a prerequisite. Maybe there is hope for us after all.
Emily P. Freeman
#39. With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.
Sue Sanders
#40. Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
Julia Child
#41. I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
Dolly Parton
#42. Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.
Martin Amis
#43. The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company ... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
Sam Altman
#44. No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.
Jim Corbett
#45. A failure is the one that is remaining in the same class after everyone has been promoted to another class
Ademola Adejumo
#46. Treasure the pain; treasure what you have with her, including the fear. Treasure what you may have, including the failure. Treasure it because if we don't live this life, if we don't live it to the fullest year after year and century after century, well, then, we die.
Anne Rice
#47. We always have a choice of going after positive or negative, prosperity or poverty, health or disease, success or failure.
Hina Hashmi
#48. Advice for a human.
81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.
82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
Matt Haig
#49. The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over
this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success.
Simone De Beauvoir
#50. Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
Hal Borland
#51. There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.
Jay Leno
#52. On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.
Ellis Hobbs
#53. There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
Susanna Clarke
#54. He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
Auguste Rodin
#55. My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope ... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
Claude Monet
#56. It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After
Starr Sackstein
#57. When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.
Harold Prince
#58. In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the failure in an intimate relationship.
Nityananda Das
#59. After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
Dan O'Brien
#60. As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.
Robert Genn
#61. It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting.
Tim Harford
#62. In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.
Lord Chesterfield
#63. There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
Chuck Barris
#64. When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
Richard Rohr
#65. Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur.
Tanya R. Liverman
#66. God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#67. Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his studies. Each replied he was getting along very well without education.
John Cage
#68. Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,
Pope Francis
#69. Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
Gifford Pinchot
#70. From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure; after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.
Luke Rhinehart
#71. I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.
Mark Batterson
#72. The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.
Studs Terkel
#75. Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other creatures when his purpose had been to create oneness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. Criminal justice is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure
the failure of a group of people that sometimes includes, but is never limited to, the accused person.
Paul Delano Butler
#77. Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.
Andrew P. Napolitano
#78. When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.
Shinzo Abe
#79. The determination in your heroic effort
Will permeate your mind and heart
Even after your success or failure
Is long forgotten.
Sri Chinmoy
#80. The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
Confucius
#81. After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#82. After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
Chang-rae Lee
#83. But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.
Rick Yancey
#84. He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
Jean De La Bruyere
#85. 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.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#86. To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#87. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
John Battelle
#91. Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.
Orrin Woodward
#92. The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.
John C. Maxwell
#93. We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
Christie Brinkley
#94. While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling that we call "I," and this is the string upon which all our states of suffering and dissatisfaction are strung.
Sam Harris
#95. Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
Mark Frauenfelder
#96. 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.
Sri Chinmoy
#97. missing link" in all systems of education known to civilization today, may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT.
Napoleon Hill
#98. Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.
Carol S. Dweck
#99. Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.
Anuj
#100. I would say to housewives, be not daunted by one failure, nor by twenty. Resolve that you will have good bread, and never cease striving after this result till you have effected it. If persons without brains can accomplish this, why cannot you?
Marion Cabell Tyree
