Failure Stigma Quotes

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

I think young men and boys are taught to fail. It's nothing to them; they do sport, they fall over, they shout, 'I'm all right,' and carry on. But with girls, they're so appallingly embarrassed to fail, it's like it's considered unfeminine.

'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country.

Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be pointed at as one of those creatures down their who didn't take advantage of this or that, who didn't climb and rise and so forth.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

You know, when men perform in combat, they're expected to perform well. That's part of being masculine. And when one of them doesn't perform well, that man alone has let the team down, and that man alone is judged for it.

I'm covered with loser dust.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.

Success will be accepted in due course. Whereas should we fail, this will be regarded as the mad venture of a fool.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.