Failure Quotes

Failure has gone to his head.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.