Failure and Setbacks Quotes

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems."

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"All the world loves a good loser."

"All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence."

"Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity."

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."

"Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it."

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."

"Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on."

"Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction."

"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them."

"By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure."

"Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult."

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."

"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

"Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures."

"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."

"Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

"Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure."

"Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of ergonomic designis to create an alignment between the user's limits, the thing you're designing, and how people will ideally use that thing."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"Every failure is a step to success."

"Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure."

"Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure."

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable."

"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

"Failure has gone to his head."

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

"Failure is a word unknown to me."

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

"Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail."