Failure Quotes

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

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

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.