Failure Quotes - Page 6

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

No pressure, no diamonds.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Failure is never a reason not to try again.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.