Failure Quotes

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

If I've got a message to the younger generation, it's this: don't be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.