Failure Quotes - Page 27

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

Don't make excuses, make good.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.