Failure Quotes - Page 36

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

Most progress is most failure.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?