Quotes for Failure

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

John Burroughs

Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to your taste, or Stephen Hawking or Iris Murdoch or Ian Rankin. Dickens, Stephen King, whoever.

Nick Hornby

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

Coretta Scott King

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

James Dyson

The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.'

Greg Boyle

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

Campbell Brown

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Pat Summitt

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We're taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A's. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst.

Reshma Saujani

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Mark Skousen

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Shah Rukh Khan

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

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Gordon Ramsay

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Henry Cavill

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

Brendon Burchard

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Steven Spielberg

Success unshared is failure.

John Paul DeJoria

My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.

Jimmy O. Yang

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn