Failure Quotes - Page 28

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

The fearful are the failing.

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

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.

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

I have a fear of failure.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.