Failure Quotes - Page 9

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.

...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.

I do not judge a person by their mistakes nor their failures. I judge a person by what they have learned. Because it's those failures that they learn from. A person who has never made a mistake nor failed at anything has never learned. By Bonnie Zackson Koury

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

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.

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

Your vision is a glimpse of your purpose and a picture of your larger dream.

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

Failure is so much more interesting.

Success involves failing first. Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person, really. It's all part of the creative process, so sit back and allow the artist within you to sprout, blossom and flourish. You must accept that your first, second, and third attempt at something might suck. It's a necessary step in improving your skill. Failure is your teacher, not your judge.

The thoughts and beliefs that you repeat in your mind when you are experiencing a negative situation become your reality. Your subconscious will make sure these limiting thoughts and beliefs are manifested.

Passion, patient, perseverance and persistent are four keys to great achievements.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

The first purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life.

When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Life isn’t about what you have, it’s about who you are.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

We can flourish and be fruitful by God’s grace.

To get to ‘yes’ from ‘no’, you may have to journey through ‘maybe’.

When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.

failure and obstacles are not the ultimate cause that deteriorate purpose but attitude and the mind

Fear mediocrity,not failure.

Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

Some fail because after they choose the direction for their careers, they spend too much time second-guessing their decision.

Today's temporary disappointment means tomorrows permanent appointment.

Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.

In times of failure you are alone. But success brings many friends.

From attraction and affectionCover of perfectionFailure beyond texture to a painful lessonEverything that was from the start wasn't from the heart

Without a compelling vision to draw you away from your present and pull you through any challenges and into the future, it becomes easy to settle for a lesser life than the one you could achieve.

To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take massive action over a long period, even when there is no evidence of progress.

There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love""Period

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

People whose imaginations are infected with fear die sooner out of incurable failure.

Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors.

The courage to continue is the sureness of success.

Never give up just because you failed initially

But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future.

Success requires discipline, dedication and diligence to the very end.

Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.

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

Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path.

Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.

Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment with what you want in your future.

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well.... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.

We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity-were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in the later years.

However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

With diligent, you will master the act.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.