Failure Quotes

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.