Top failure Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of failure quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kerry Kennedy
Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.
- Kerry Kennedy
Collection: Failure
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Failure
Image of Michael Gove
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.
- Michael Gove
Collection: Failure
Image of Orison Swett Marden
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
- Orison Swett Marden
Collection: Failure
Image of Amy Tan
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
- Amy Tan
Collection: Failure
Image of Marshall McLuhan
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Failure
Image of Rickey Henderson
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
- Rickey Henderson
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Image of Charles Inglis
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
- Charles Inglis
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Image of Randeep Hooda
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
- Randeep Hooda
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Image of Orlando Bloom
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
- Orlando Bloom
Collection: Failure
Image of David Cage
I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
- David Cage
Collection: Failure
Image of David Gregory
One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.
- David Gregory
Collection: Failure
Image of Herbert Samuel
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
- Herbert Samuel
Collection: Failure
Image of Orhan Pamuk
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
- Orhan Pamuk
Collection: Failure
Image of Will Self
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.
- Will Self
Collection: Failure
Image of Brad Garlinghouse
To me, if we're not failing a little bit, we're not trying hard enough. I think great cultures encourage risk and are tolerant of failure. If you don't do that, you're going to end up with a culture that is stagnant and not thinking about the next generation of products and experiences.
- Brad Garlinghouse
Collection: Failure
Image of Peter Jones
I always substitute the word 'feedback' for 'failure.'
- Peter Jones
Collection: Failure
Image of Baron Corbin
Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.
- Baron Corbin
Collection: Failure
Image of Tennessee Williams
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
- Tennessee Williams
Collection: Failure
Image of Atul Gawande
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
- Atul Gawande
Collection: Failure
Image of Vikram Bhatt
You can't afford to be afraid of failure in this business.
- Vikram Bhatt
Collection: Failure
Image of Jay-Z
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
- Jay-Z
Collection: Failure
Image of Karen Armstrong
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
- Karen Armstrong
Collection: Failure
Image of Anna Quindlen
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
- Anna Quindlen
Collection: Failure
Image of Chris Hedges
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
- Chris Hedges
Collection: Failure
Image of Toby Young
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
- Toby Young
Collection: Failure
Image of Joey Jordison
Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.
- Joey Jordison
Collection: Failure
Image of Kerry Kennedy
Chevron's failure to adhere to basic standards of decency undermines the credibility of our capitalist model and diminishes confidence that our judicial system can serve the poor as well as the rich.
- Kerry Kennedy
Collection: Failure
Image of Frederick W. Smith
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
- Frederick W. Smith
Collection: Failure
Image of Payal Kadakia
Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
- Payal Kadakia
Collection: Failure
Image of Elliot Richardson
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
- Elliot Richardson
Collection: Failure
Image of Michael Ramsey
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
- Michael Ramsey
Collection: Failure
Image of Montgomery Clift
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
- Montgomery Clift
Collection: Failure
Image of Diego Klattenhoff
You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.
- Diego Klattenhoff
Collection: Failure
Image of Louis C. K.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
- Louis C. K.
Collection: Failure
Image of James Lane Allen
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
- James Lane Allen
Collection: Failure
Image of Kenneth L. Pike
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
- Kenneth L. Pike
Collection: Failure
Image of Abi Morgan
Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
- Abi Morgan
Collection: Failure
Image of Alexander Payne
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
- Alexander Payne
Collection: Failure
Image of Daisaku Ikeda
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
- Daisaku Ikeda
Collection: Failure
Image of Mike Pompeo
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
- Mike Pompeo
Collection: Failure
Image of Rain
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
- Rain
Collection: Failure
Image of Michael Franti
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.
- Michael Franti
Collection: Failure
Image of Alexander Haig
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
Collection: Failure
Image of Hideo Kojima
My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.
- Hideo Kojima
Collection: Failure
Image of Jon Ronson
Success is always less funny than failure.
- Jon Ronson
Collection: Failure
Image of Kathy Ireland
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
- Kathy Ireland
Collection: Failure
Image of Rosalynn Carter
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
- Rosalynn Carter
Collection: Failure
Image of Joe Strummer
The hippy movement was a failure.
- Joe Strummer
Collection: Failure
Image of Zbigniew Brzezinski
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Collection: Failure