Failure Quotes - Page 18

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

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.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed