Failure Quotes

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

My reputation grows with every failure.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Success is 99 percent failure.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

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

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

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

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

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

Don't come home a failure.