Failure Quotes

Nothing fails like failure.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.