Failure Quotes

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

Gillian Tans

Dutch businesswoman

The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure and, second, everybody keeps their heads down focused on the particular and they ignore the system.

Dominic Cummings

Chief Adviser PrimeMinister

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Nigel Farage

Former Member of the European Parliament

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Carol S. Dweck

American psychologist

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

Barton Gellman

American author

My reputation grows with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Jerry Brown

Former Governor of California

Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.

Reshma Saujani

CEO of Girls Who Code

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

Henry Petroski

American engineer

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

Hima Das

Athlete

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

Gerrit Cole

Baseball pitcher

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Peter Guber

Executive Chairman of the Golden State Warriors

For Trump, success always has a single father - himself. Failure has a hundred - everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The 'deep state.' Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn't do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.

George T. Conway Iii

American lawyer

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Mike Murdock

American singer-songwriter

Immigration is a federal issue. The failing of Washington to implement an immigration system that works for our families and our businesses - it's Washington's failure. For us locally in Colorado, it's really important that all people here feel comfortable with their local law enforcement.

Cary Kennedy

American politician from Colorado

Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.

Marilyn Minter

American visual artist

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Donna Brazile

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

Morten Harket

Norwegian singer

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B. F. Skinner

American psychologist

As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can't justify them, as they apply to people.

Caroline Ghosn

American businesswoman ‧ Carlos Ghosn's daughter

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