Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isak Dinesen

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Iris Murdoch

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Horace Mann

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

J. M. Coetzee

When all else fails, philosophize.

J. K. Rowling

Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

J. K. Rowling

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

J. K. Rowling

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

H. L. Mencken

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Gary Hamel

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Jessica Simpson

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

Keith Teare

I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

David Jaffe

I'd rather fail and try than just make another racing game.

Mahela Jayawardene

I am not happy at all. Our star batsmen failed to play big innings.

Ruth Rendell

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

Nick Harkaway

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

I don't think the secretary-general wants another failed effort.

Dave Eggers

I am myself a failed cartoonist, There are a million reasons to ruin things.

Over here is a different mindset from them. You know you're getting ready for a championship season, and a season where you know in your heart that you're going to the playoffs and that ultimately your realistic goal is to win the World Series. And if you don't, then it's a failed season.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Evel Knievel

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

Carly Fiorina

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

Bruce Rauner

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

Desi Arnaz

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Nate Lowman

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Matthew LeCroy

You look for a pitch to hit in the outfield and get the run in. I failed to do it, ... That was our chance.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

Sebastian Thrun

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.