Quotes for Failure

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

Doug Liman

The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.

H. R. McMaster

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

Frances Arnold

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Elias Canetti

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

Christina Tosi

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

Erin Cummings

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.

Kenneth Frazier

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Jim Dale

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

James Cameron

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Failure is a part of success.

Hank Aaron

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

Anthony Noto

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Dorothea Brande

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

Conor McGregor

I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live.

Scott Cawthon

Failure is a better teacher than success. I am what I am today because of failures and successes.

Rakshit Shetty