Failure Quotes

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.

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.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

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.