Famous Quotes About failure

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.