Failure Quotes (892 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Chris Zylka
„My greatest fear is failure.“
― Chris Zylka ―
Picture of quotation author Markus Zusak
„Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.“
― Markus Zusak ―
Picture of quotation author Rob Zombie
„Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.“
― Rob Zombie ―
Picture of quotation author Slavoj Zizek
„I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.“
― Slavoj Zizek ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„Remember that failure is an event, not a person.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Niklas Zennstrom
„You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.“
Picture of quotation author Ravi Zacharias
„Success is more difficult to handle than failure.“
― Ravi Zacharias ―
Picture of quotation author Ravi Zacharias
„By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.“
― Ravi Zacharias ―
Picture of quotation author Toby Young
„In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.“
― Toby Young ―
Picture of quotation author Toby Young
„America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.“
― Toby Young ―
Picture of quotation author Toby Young
„I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.“
― Toby Young ―
Picture of quotation author Paramahansa Yogananda
„The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.“
Picture of quotation author Lev Yilmaz
„Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.“
― Lev Yilmaz ―
Picture of quotation author Trisha Yearwood
„Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.“
― Trisha Yearwood ―
Picture of quotation author Rosalyn S. Yalow
„The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.“
Picture of quotation author Bob Woodward
„The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.“
― Bob Woodward ―
Picture of quotation author Bob Woodward
„Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.“
― Bob Woodward ―

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