Failure Quotes - Page 6

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.

Failure and Success are two sides of the same coin. One does not exist without the other.

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what's at stake isn't a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

Failure is only a step towards success.

You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the immediate future and instead focuses on generations to come and how your actions today will impact them long after you are gone.

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

Winning is not a matter of acceptance but a term of dedication with an interest to achieve.

The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.

​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

The Brain Size of People who see Big Dreams, is same as of Yours.

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

Words fail to describewhat i feel anymore.Let me be numb for a while,let me be sore.

Be patient and wait for the due harvest.

Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

With diligent, you will master the act.

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

When I was last in Paris I was dirt poor, hiding from the Vietnam War. One night, in an old church, I considered taking my life. I didn't know how to be so young and not belong anywhere, stuck among so many perplexing melodies.

Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.

Success and failure will all come to pass like waves, only Nature remains

The test in spiritual fires is the strength of faith.

Learning starts with single word "WHY".

When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people’s credibility which won’t fit! Live like you!

Failing may not necessarily mean you're losing out - it may be your defining moment. So, dare to fail forward!

...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands.

It's horrible if someone delights in someone's failures. It's horrible if someone feels bad when someone does good.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.

Challenges often require that we suffer or endure over an extended period of time —thus Challenges develop patience.

Self-discipline is a prerequisite to progress.

Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.