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Failure Quotes

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

– Trent Reznor

‘Pressure’ is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.

– Tommy Lasorda

I’m very comfortable with failure. I’m very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

– Steven Soderbergh

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

– Toby Young

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

– Tony Benn

Success is 99 percent failure.

– Soichiro Honda

Translation is the art of failure.

– Umberto Eco

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston’s return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

– Shane Leslie

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

– Theodor Herzl

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

– Zig Ziglar

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

– Sheila Jackson Lee

I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway – even after all that development and pilot work.

– Ted Sarandos

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

– Steve Forbes

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

– William James

Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

– Sumner Redstone

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

– Simon Hoggart

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

– Victor Kiam

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch of all I survey.

– Sylvester Stallone

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

– Tiki Barber

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.

– Tom Baker

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

– S. I. Hayakawa

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

– Tim Harford

Boys with a ‘failure to launch’ are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

– Warren Farrell

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

– William Kingdon Clifford

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.

– Steve Harvey

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

– William Empson

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

– Walter Cronkite

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that’s not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it… that’s a real problem.

– Tim Harford

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

– Thomas Haden Church

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

– Tom Kite

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