Failure Quotes

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.

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.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, 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.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

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.