Quotes about Failure and Hope

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. Votes: 1

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. Votes: 1

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. Votes: 1

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it. Votes: 1

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored. Votes: 1

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. Votes: 1

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. Votes: 1

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. Votes: 1

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope. Votes: 0

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. Votes: 0

Every successful person had experience failure but they overcome with courage and adamant hope Votes: 0

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. Votes: 0

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure Votes: 0

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels. Votes: 0

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. Votes: 0

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. Votes: 0

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. Votes: 0

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence! Votes: 0

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on." Votes: 0

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future. Votes: 0

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure. Votes: 0