Failure Quotes

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.