Failure Quotes

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with 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.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Failure is always an option.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.