Top 100 Failure In Quotes
#1. Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his doctor, his secretary for the past twenty-one years, and the publicity chief of 20th Century - Fox. Long
Otto Friedrich
#2. There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in any circumstance. How we learn to activate them without running the risk of lying to ourselves is the key that unlocks the superhuman lying dormant within us.
David Amerland
#3. Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.
Lara Adrian
#4. There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.
George W Truett
#5. The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
Brian Tracy
#6. I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball
#7. I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
George Edmund Street
#9. If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.
Paul Tough
#10. Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
Brian Tracy
#11. I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
#12. There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.
Robin Sharma
#13. Fall in love with what you're going to do for a living. To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words. I'd rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.
George Burns
#14. You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
John Updike
#15. Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
Adrian Rogers
#16. The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B.C. Forbes
#17. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
Seth Godin
#18. 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
#19. In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
Gail Sheehy
#20. Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure - in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.
Tedd Tripp
#21. 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
#22. No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect ... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
#23. The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
Mike Pompeo
#24. For there is no true failure in life, child. There is only giving up one day before we would have achieved success.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
Richard Aldington
#26. If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.
Hooman Majd
#27. In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
Toby Young
#28. Oh sweetheart, I know what failure is...But as hard as it is, you have to lean in to those feelings. You hadn't have much failure in your life, Sarah. It takes practice to get good at it. It hurts like holy hell, but it's important. It's the door that will lead you into your future.
Molly Newman
#29. The
number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure
Steve Harvey
#30. If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.
Charles Baudelaire
#31. You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
Charles Dickens
#32. Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.
Ingrid Weir
#33. I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
George Burns
#34. Moving across levels of the particular and the abstract, trying to avoid a transcendent purchase on the objects of study, we set ourselves up for necessary failure in order to learn how to find our way into post-foundational possibilities.
Patti Lather
#35. The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
Carol Moseley Braun
#36. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
Neale Donald Walsch
#37. He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich
#38. The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
Anand Gopal
#39. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
#41. There is no success or failure in Nature.
John Searle
#42. The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.
John Elof Boodin
#43. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
J.R. Miller
#44. Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
Anton Webern
#45. Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan
#46. Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#47. Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
Henry Petroski
#48. I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Jeremy Irons
#49. Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.
Amor Towles
#50. The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.
Natalie Goldberg
#51. Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.
Zhi Gang Sha
#52. I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
James D. Watson
#53. Everything looks like a failure in the middle. Any
Stewart Brand
#54. The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it's building the wrong thing.
Mary Poppendieck
#55. I was continuously a failure in his eyes, the worst of his pupils who just couldn't seem to learn her lessons.
Heather Lyons
#56. No man or woman is uniformly successful ... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Barnaby Keeney
#57. So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Allen Tate
#58. There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats
#59. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
Whitney Johnson
#60. Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
Bob Proctor
#61. It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.
Ryan Hall
#62. the congressional ban on the universal patient identifier the single biggest failure in the history of health IT legislation.
Robert Wachter
#63. We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#64. In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
Sebastian Thrun
#65. Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.
Ruth Benedict
#66. There is no Success or Failure in "LOVE", by itself is a Victory !!
Mahesh Shekhar
#67. If you do nothing but urge people to "look out for number one," you will be setting them up for future failure in any relationship, especially marriage.
Timothy Keller
#68. There is no failure in life, there are only those who don't know how to succeed.
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life
Napoleon Hill
#70. Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.
Alison Levine
#71. My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.
Ben Hewitt
#72. Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years ... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
Bob Ainsworth
#73. Time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes
Richard Yates
#74. We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
Alan Shearer
#75. I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
Roger Daltrey
#76. The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
Dalai Lama
#77. The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
Bill Bryson
#78. In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated.
Henry Miller
#79. A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.
Thomas Merton
#80. 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
#81. The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Lewis B. Smedes
#82. There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic William Farrar
#83. Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.
Tim Harford
#84. Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, 'on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?' Extremely difficult.
Anup Kochhar
#85. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
#86. I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#87. We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning
Reid Hoffman
#88. Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
Kevin Kelly
#89. Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.
Randy Gage
#90. Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war.
Brendon Burchard
#91. Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
Eric Hoffer
#92. I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
Noel DeJesus
#93. There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.
Rajneesh
#94. Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman
#95. I was a failure in Boston ... because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.
Edith Wharton
#96. I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.
Michael Phelps
#97. But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself, and for your education as s human being.
Rollo May
#98. The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.
Meryl Streep
#99. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.
M. Russell Ballard
#100. Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing.
John McCain
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