Failure Quotes

The only risk of failure is promotion.

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.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.