Failure Quotes

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

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.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

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.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.