Failure Quotes

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

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.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Never permit failure to become a habit.