Failure Quotes

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

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

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live.

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

One should accept failure, and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn again.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

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.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.