Failure Quotes
- Page 17Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
Rodney Alexander
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
Don Nickles
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
Jennifer Lawrence
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
Shannen Doherty
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
Alan Hansen
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
Alastair Campbell
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.
Barack Obama
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke
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.
Mark Skousen
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.
John Poindexter
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski