Failure Quotes

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Failure is impossible.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Failure is a part of success.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.