Failure Quotes

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. 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.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

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.