Top 100 Not A Failure Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
John Burroughs
#3. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview]
Ray Bradbury
#4. You are not a failure till you start looking for who to blame for it
Bishop Oyedepo
#5. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
Og Mandino
#6. The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#7. Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [ ... ] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.
Raph Koster
#8. I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
Sarah Dessen
#9. There are times you just want to put the tools down and say 'I can't do this, I'm done, I'm a failure.'I just want to say you are not a failure as long you not yet quitting your dream.Keep going brother, sister, friend is not over yet.
Euginia Herlihy
#10. You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.
Susan Jeffers
#11. No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.
Orison Swett Marden
#12. One great reason for hope is this: you are not a failure just because you have failed at certain things.
Joyce Meyer
#13. You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
#14. I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.
Keith Teare
#16. Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!
Craig Groeschel
#17. The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.
Michelle Malkin
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
Socrates
#22. I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.
Susan Jeffers
#23. Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.
Mona Charen
#24. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
Orison Swett Marden
#26. You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.
Joel Osteen
#27. 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
#29. The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please, she was asking him to agree that her life was not a failure.
Richard Yates
#30. you're not a failure as long as you never quit. And even if you do. It's still not over. You can choose to get up and try again.
Matt Crofton
#31. I have been saying yes to being fat. Which is WHY I'm now so fat. I'm not a failure; I'm successfully fat. I didn't let go of the wheel; I just turned the car down the fat road.
Shonda Rhimes
#32. You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes
John Wooden
#33. We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
Joyce Meyer
#34. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman
#35. Failure is an event, it is not a person.
Zig Ziglar
#36. I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
George Orwell
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.
Robert P. George
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Bram Stoker
#48. 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
#49. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
#50. 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
#51. Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
Walter Wriston
#52. Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.
Glenn R. Schiraldi
#53. What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
Iyanla Vanzant
#54. The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.
Chris Van Allsburg
#55. It was hard to feel like somebody didn't like me. It felt like such a failure. I don't care as much now. It's really great. It's like I can finally eat spicy food without the gut ache later, or something similar. I have a stomach for other people not stomaching me. Or at least I am working on it.
Amy Poehler
#56. Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring
Adam Phillips
#57. Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk
#58. For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a field of corn, not to think of himself as a corn person suggests either a failure of imagination or a triumph of capitalism.
Michael Pollan
#59. If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it ... that's a real problem.
Tim Harford
#60. I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney
#61. He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Craig Ferguson
#62. For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
Henry Paulson
#63. It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
Conan O'Brien
#64. I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Og Mandino
#65. There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
Spike Jonze
#66. Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.
Simon Sinek
#67. That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure.
Steven Pressfield
#68. Give yourself permission to not know things. Some people see ignorance as a point of failure, but successful people see it as acknowledgment of reality and an opportunity for growth.
Todd Henry
#69. Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.
Arianna Huffington
#70. To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.
Brent Weeks
#71. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
David Gelernter
#72. I've proven that I'm not a complete failure. Every film has done well. It's like, 'So, okay, when do I get my deal at Warner Bros?'
Julie Delpy
#73. Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
Marcus Aurelius
#74. The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane
#75. The past is not an excuse, it's a REASON
K.C. Rhoads
#76. Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure.
Lorii Myers
#77. It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.
Christy Hall
#78. Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
John Wooden
#79. 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
#80. There is the world of difference between failing at something and being a failure - but many people do not differentiate.
Ursula Markham
#81. Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
P. J. O'Rourke
#82. Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the only relationship that's truly a failure is one that lasts longe than it should. The success of a relationship should be measured by it's depth, not by it's lenght.
Neil Strauss
#83. If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
#84. We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
Libba Bray
#85. The problem exactly is that she dumped me. That I'm alone. Oh my God, I'm alone again. And not only that, but I'm a total failure in case you haven't noticed. I'm washed up. I'm former. Formerly the boyfriend of Katherine XIX. Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit.
John Green
#86. Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
#87. The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.
Daniel Goldin
#88. Death is the future of everyone, but he who detests death is a failure in life, but he who admonishes it is an achiever
Michael Bassey Johnson
#89. You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror.
It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence.
"A dead man", I think. He's not far wrong.
Markus Zusak
#90. Never give up.' This is not sound advice, it is bad advice. You must give up when there is no point in continuing. Then begin a new course. There is no greater failure than not changing course when the time is right to do so.
Chloe Thurlow
#91. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the historical truth about how African Americans finally won their freedom presents a major obstacle to genuine racial reconciliation.
Timothy B. Tyson
#92. When God looks at you, he doesn't see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.
Max Lucado
#93. 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
#94. Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
Robert H. Schuller
#95. Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
Ron Dellums
#96. The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.
Laurence Sterne
#97. The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
Dylan Moran
#98. I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.
John Kapelos
#99. Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
E. Stanley Jones
#100. 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
