684 private quotes tagged failure

“All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.” — Alberto Giacometti

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“As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.” — Albert J. Nock

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“But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.” — Cliff Richard

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“When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.” — Brett Ratner

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“The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.” — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.” — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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“Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.” — Don Shula

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“I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.” — Ellen Page

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“As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.” — Doc Hastings

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“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.” — Harold Ramis

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“I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.” — Alexander Wang

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“Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.” — Johann Most

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“When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.” — William Kingdon Clifford

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“In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.” — Frederick William Robertson

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“If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.” — Yann Martel

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“Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.” — Yann Martel

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“We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?” — Michael Fassbender

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“I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.” — LeAnn Rimes

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“Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.” — Alastair Campbell

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“There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.” — Elliot Richardson

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“I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.” — Lisa Marie Presley

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“I believe only in art and failure.” — Jane Rule

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“Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.” — Gary Ryan Blair

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“The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.” — Carol Moseley Braun

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“It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.” — Charlotte Whitton

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