Failure Quotes - page 4

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. (Michael Korda)
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. View quote
Michael Korda
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. View quote
George W. Bush
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. View quote
William Saroyan
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. View quote
Robert E. Howard
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. View quote
Julia Child
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. View quote
John Mayer
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies? View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. View quote
George Canning
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. View quote
Arianna Huffington
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. (Ernest Hemingway)
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. View quote
Amy Tan
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. View quote
Og Mandino
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there. View quote
Saul Alinsky
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience. View quote
Norman Angell
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. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. View quote
Davy Crockett
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. (Robert Kiyosaki)
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. View quote
Bob Woodward