Failure Perception Quotes

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

We need to stop frowning upon failure whilst criticising those that succeed.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

You really can't go back to the Senate after running for President .... The danger of running for the Presidency is that if you don't make it—and that's the case for almost everyone who tries—then you are considered a failure.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

If you lose you better at least be entertaining while you do it or people will turn you off.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.