Failure Quotes · Page 246

“Isn't violence a failure of the imagination, after all? And that failure, isn't it stupidity?”

— Jeet Thayil

“I'm all alone, fuming at myself, waving a great flag of failure.”

— Emma Cameron

“I will encourage you to fail because by failing you will learn.”

— Bryant Mcentire

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

— Thomas A. Edison

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

— Donald Miller

Making mistake is more honorable than escaping from responsibility.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

— John Harbaugh

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure…

— Saint Basil

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

— Steve Gleason

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

— Nadine Gordimer

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix…

— Seth Godin

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

— Jim Cooper

“All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only…

— Jon Vroman

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

— Luke Perry

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

— Simon Newcomb

“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them…

— Hannibal Buress

“Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power,…

— FRESH IN THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY by M M Kirschbaum

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could…

— Emma Cline

In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last…

— Conan O'Brien

“You’re not a failure, Uncle,” he said, the words awkward and insufficient in his mouth. “It’s only that we don’t feel safe.…

— G. Willow Wilson

Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single caress but more of that.

— Anonymous

Sometimes when you fail that makes you realize that you still have a lot to improve.

— Carlos Correa

“the worst man is he who accepts no apology, forgives no sin, and excuses no mistake.”

— Julia Drosten

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

— Jonathan Kozol

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

— John Churton Collins

Search and keep failing Fail and fail you will Find what you're Searching for.

— Jeremy Limn

Hold onto me and I will prove I am worth it all or leave and it will be your worst mistake.

— Johnnie Rose II

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

— Satya Nadella

I do believe that it's when you stop and give up that real failure takes place.

— Ronnie Screwvala

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

— Alexander Hamilton

Don't judge me by my mistake, judge me by how I learn from my mistake!

— Luis Araujo

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

— Emile M. Cioran

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

— Jack Johnson

I have failed you, but I have loved you from the start.

— Anonymous

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

— Orson Scott Card