Failure Quotes

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

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.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

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.

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.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

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.