Failure Quotes

4758 quotes by 2649 authors

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of… — Brian Ferneyhough
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and… — Brian Ferneyhough
I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel. — Frances E. Willard
We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option. — Gene Kranz
If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is… — Anh Do
It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown… — Alan Redpath
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the… — Lee H. Hamilton
You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less… — Jennifer O'Neill
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it… — Susan Griffin
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace… — Albert J. Nock
Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they… — Eda LeShan
Success in never final; failure is never fatal — Conrad Hilton
What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher. — Soichiro Honda
Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing — Soichiro Honda
A poetâ€™s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but… — Walter Martin
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. — Simon Newcomb
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi… — John Powell
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. — Charles Schumer

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