Failure Quotes

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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