Quotes about Failure

“I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.”

“I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.”

“I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.”

“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.”

“You have to be able to bounce back and deal with disappointment, failure and weaknesses, and a lot of that happens behind the scenes for teams that are very successful.”

“In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.”

“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”

“Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.”

“Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We're taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A's. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst.”

“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”

“I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.”

“Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.”

“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

“I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.”

“As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?”

“The hippy movement was a failure.”

“I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

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

“The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.”

“Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.”

“My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.”