Failure Quotes - Page 2

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

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.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

There are no failures - only feedback.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

Failure is not an option!

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.