Failure Quotes

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.