Top 100 Failure Is Not Quotes
#1. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
#2. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson
#3. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
Kamal Ravikant
#4. Failure is an event, it is not a person.
Zig Ziglar
#5. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas
#6. Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
Hans Selye
#7. This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.
John F. Kerry
#8. I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
Robert Barry
#9. I am a champion, and my damsel is in distress. Failure is not an option." "But death is," she mumbled under her breath. "Fear not, mate. I will prevail." Famous last words.
Eve Langlais
#10. Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.
Michael Shanks
#11. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
#12. Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.
Mallory Ortberg
#13. I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
George Orwell
#14. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
#15. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#17. In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.
Christopher Gorham
#18. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#19. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
Steven Redhead
#20. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Dexter Palmer
#21. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#22. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
#23. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
Michael Josephson
#24. The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
#25. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
Umberto Eco
#26. So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.
Rick Warren
#27. Victory is not in winning; victory is in defeating failures.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard
C.B. Smith
#29. New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson, a Republican and tri-athlete, has stated publicly that "Our present course is not working. Our War on Drugs is a real failure.
James P. Gray
#30. If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from
Jason Aites
#31. The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
Bill Moyers
#33. It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Brian Tracy
#34. To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
John Ashcroft
#35. The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Leonard Ravenhill
#36. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#37. Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#38. failure is not absolute, failure grants experience, experience prevents failure
Adam
#39. A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
Confucius
#40. Some older or very ill patients may not be suitable candidates for fecal transfer. Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure, especially for those patients who are too ill with other conditions like cancer, heart failure, dialysis, or Alzheimer's.
J. Thomas LaMont
#41. Failure is a only another chapter in the book of life and not the end!
Timothy Pina
#42. Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
Mac Anderson
#44. On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger
Michael Kirby
#46. Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.
Jennifer Hudson
#47. Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children
that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
David Lloyd George
#48. Then why?"
"Because you expect me to fail. You expect me to do wrong. To be reckless. To ruin myself."
"Why not work to prove me wrong?"
"But don't you see? I am proving you wrong. If I choose recklessness, where is the failure? If I choose it for myself, you cannot force it upon me.
Sarah MacLean
#49. Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph
Ikechukwu Joseph
#50. Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.
Edward Tufte
#51. If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
Seth Godin
#52. I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.
Robert Piper
#53. It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff - as much stuff as possible - with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
Stefan Sagmeister
#54. A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#55. If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government ... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
Calvin Coolidge
#57. Conflict manipulation is the favored strategy of people who incessantly worry about failure, of managers who excel at motivational chats that point out the highly unpleasant consequences if the company's goals are not achieved, and of social movements that attempt to mobilize people through fear.
Peter M. Senge
#58. Failure is not a destination; it's an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.
Les Brown
#60. The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
Sherrod Brown
#61. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.
Peter F. Drucker
#62. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin
#63. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
#64. Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.
Llaila Afrika
#66. This is why I hate things like love, not only it will turn me into a fool, it would also turn me into a complete failure.
Yoshiki Nakamura
#67. It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.
Margaret Thatcher
#68. Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.
Miyamoto Musashi
#69. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition
Julian Baggini
#70. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
Northern Adams
#71. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
Sarah Lewis
#72. Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
Adrienne Rich
#73. You should have a kind heart because you are not just a so and so person,you are also an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness because,he is the bestower of all desired attributes but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creation
Jaspreet Kaur
#74. Success is not genetic neither is failure hereditary ; it is the passion to strive further that counts .
Osunsakin Adewale
#75. Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
Natalie Massenet
#76. If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.
Earl Nightingale
#77. It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
Thucydides
#78. I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.
Ray Rice
#79. Change is inevitable, so accept it.
Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.
Love is abundant, so spread it.
Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.
Life is for living, so live it.
Debasish Mridha
#81. it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first.
David S. Rose
#82. Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Ben Carson
#83. The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
#85. Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
Eric Ries
#86. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
#87. Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
William J. Clinton
#88. Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you - it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.
Deborah King
#89. There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.
Wayne Jacobsen
#90. It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.
Napoleon Hill
#92. Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. "This might not work" isn't merely something to be tolerated; it's something you must seek out.
Seth Godin
#93. The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you're shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
Eric Barker
#94. Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.
Norman Finkelstein
#95. Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
Erik Weihenmayer
#96. Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#97. No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.
Isaiah Berlin
#98. Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure.
Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success.
Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law.
Adelaja Precious
#99. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
Bruce Lee
#100. Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
Walter Wriston
