Failure Quotes

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

I believe only in art and failure.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.