Failure Quotes

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.