Failure Quotes

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

John W. Gardner

Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

Bertrand Russell

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

John Poindexter

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature, he said, irritated at my failure to respond. Nature's virtue is intact, I reassured him. I just know some different laws.

Orson Scott Card

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Steve Harvey

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Donn Pearce

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Natalie Goldberg

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Elias Canetti

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Whoopi Goldberg

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

David Limbaugh

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

Rahm Emanuel

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?

Charlie Sheen

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Marvin Minsky

Failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Demi Moore