Top 462 Failure Quotes

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Patanjali

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Tom Baker

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

Brooke Shields

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

Mark Frauenfelder

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

Dan O'Brien

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

Conor McGregor

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Michael Baden

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

Nelson Peltz

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Hugh Grant

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Jeff Tweedy

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