Quotes about Failure

“We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.”

“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.”

“In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.”

“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”

“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.”

“With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.”

“If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.”

“Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

“As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.”

“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.”

“The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.”

“My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.”

“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?”

“I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.”

“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”

“I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.”

“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”

“I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.”