Failure Quotes

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Translation is the art of failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The only failure is not to try.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

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.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.