All Quotes by Failure
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“In the lexicon of youth, whichAs—fail!”
“Never say"Fail" again.”
“Shariputra, it is the failings of living beings that prevent them from seeing the marvelous purity of the land of the Buddha, the Thus Come One. The Thus Come One is not to blame. Shariputra, this land of mine is pure, but you fail to see it.”
“He that is down needs fear no fallHe that is low, no pride.”
“They never fail who dieIn a great cause.”
“It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.”
“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.”
“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.”
“You are responsible for all of your successes, and the lack thereof. And that is the essential point that failure, your ever-faithful friend, wants to make: that your failure could not exist without you—without your stupidity, without your lies, without your mistakes, your uselessness, your lack of faith, your ineptitude, your unjustifiable confidence in your alleged abilities, you stupid loser—failure is your only friend. Failure is your only lover. Failure is your only hope.”
“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.”
“If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.”
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying (no hard work).”
“The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.”
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
“I chose my path. You chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while... the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see the hero fail, fall, die trying.”
“It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!”
“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
“Greatly begin! Though thou have timeNot failure, but low aim is crime.”
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.”
“With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.”
“In God's world, for those who are in earnest there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.”
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.”
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
“Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.”
“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow—never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”
“Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.”
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
“Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”
“[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.”
“Now a' is done that men can do,And a' is done in vain.”
“He that is down can fall no lower.”
“He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,That hopes for constant love of woman kind.”
“Failed the bright promise of your early day?”
“You may boldly say, you did not ploughWith the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.”
“If this fail,And earth's base built on stubble.”
“Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.”
“Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.”
“How are the mighty fallen!”
“Here's to the men who lose!Contempt is Failure's share!”
“And each forgets, as he strips and runsIn the glare of the truth at last.”
“We have scotch'd the snake, not killed it.”
“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,There is no failure for the good and brave.”
“For he that believeth, bearing in hand,Plougheth in the water, and soweth in the sand.”
“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”