Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dave Eggers

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

Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Honore de Balzac

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Ian Hunter

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

Horace Mann

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

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.

Ivar Giaever

To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

Isaac Stern

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Irving Babbitt

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

But it marks, to some degree, a failure on our part to communicate the message,

Hannah Simone

We all have our strengths and our failings.

Graeme Simsion

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

Georgette Mosbacher

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

Gwen Stefani

Every day I fail at something.

I don't really know why we always seem to fail at big tournaments,

Maria Semple

I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

Ricky Williams

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a drug test because I was ready to quit football,

Ingmar Bergman

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure...

It was the guy's fault. He had a stop sign and he failed to yield. Never saw them coming.

It was some type of a mechanical failure. There was nothing unusual happening.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?