715 Quotes Regarding Failure


I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Gordon Parks

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Annette Funicello

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
Jonathan Kozol

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
Jonathan Kozol

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
James Taylor

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
Phil McGraw

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
Kevin Costner

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
Nigel Farage

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Nigel Farage

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Alexander Haig

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Dirk Benedict

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
Gordon Ramsay

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
Maude Adams