Famous Quotes
- At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
- Gordon Parks on Failure
- At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
- Hector Berlioz on Failure
- At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
- Elisabetta Canalis on Failure
- At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
- Robert Farrar Capon on Failure
- Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
- John Haggai on Failure
- Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
- Ayelet Waldman on Failure
- Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
- Napoleon Hill on Failure
- Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
- Estelle Morris on Failure
- Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
- Chuck Noll on Failure
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
- Edward Abbey on Failure
- Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
- Peter Guber on Failure
- Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
- Doug Coupland on Failure
- But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
- Thomas Haden Church on Failure
- But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
- Kathy Ireland on Failure
- But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
- Cliff Richard on Failure
- But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
- Don Nickles on Failure
- But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!
- Rupert Holmes on Failure
- 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.
- Robert E. Howard on Failure
- But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
- Bodhidharma on Failure
- By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
- Jonathan Kozol on Failure
- By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
- Sheila Jackson Lee on Failure
- Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
- William Irwin Thompson on Failure
- Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
- Erik Erikson on Failure
- Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
- Serj Tankian on Failure
- Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
- Sarah McLachlan on Failure
- Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
- Gary Ryan Blair on Failure
- Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
- H. G. Wells on Failure
- Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
- Jonathan Raban on Failure
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry on Failure
- Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
- Jerry Bruckheimer on Failure
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce on Failure
- Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie on Failure
- Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
- Justin Guarini on Failure
- Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
- Gary Ryan Blair on Failure
- Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
- Michael Crawford on Failure
- Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
- Trisha Yearwood on Failure
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- Richard Branson on Failure
- Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
- Bernard Baruch on Failure
- Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
- Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
- Benjamin Franklin on Failure
- Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
- Bryant H. McGill on Failure
- Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
- Maude Adams on Failure
- Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
- Lily Tomlin on Failure
- Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
- H. Stanley Judd on Failure
- Don't come home a failure.
- Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone on Failure
- Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
- Michael Savage on Failure
- Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
- Robert Orben on Failure
- Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
- E. Franklin Frazier on Failure
- Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
- Edsger Dijkstra on Failure
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