Failure Quotes

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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.