Failure quotes

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Pain is temporary, Failure lasts for ever.
Lance Armstrong

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. [er, yes]
Alberto Giacometti

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp

Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure.
Christopher Gist

I wasn't afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho

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

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav Mahler

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Edwin C Bliss

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
Soichiro Honda

When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair
George Osborne

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
Dorothea Brande

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey Mackay

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie

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

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
Mother Teresa

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure
William Saroyan

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine

'Failure to prepare. Prepare to fail.'
Roy Keane

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing
Warren Miller

In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
Eddie Bell

The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.
Oliver Letwin

As an Englander, I must admit it is true - if a Welshman achieves success he is heralded as a britishh triumph, should he lose then he is very much a Welsh failure.
Stan Stevens

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J P Getty

You have to win the title here. The fans will not accept failure. If you lose, everybody cries for seven days; if you win, they carry you on their hands
Mateja Kezman

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.
Charlie Chaplin

A vice is a failure of desire
Gerald Stanley Lee

'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001

'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000

'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000

BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000

'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'

-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000

'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid

'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard

What we have seen is an effort to emulate the Blair era, but a failure to do so.
Sir Menzies Campbell

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Al Gore

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.
Craig Breedlove

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
Arthur Miller

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Anthony Robbins

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

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