Failure quotes

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

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E Lee

For people in Brazil, failure in the World Cup was not an option. But we failed.
Ronaldinho

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

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard

When I was a young man I observed than nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work
George Bernard Shaw

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia

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

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger Von Oech

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

It's worse than losing a war - a national crisis of the highest magnitude. [on the World Cup failure 1974]
George Wigg

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it[abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan Williams

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

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
Raymond Chandler

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

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

There is always time for failure.
John Mortimer

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

If you want to win the battle then you better have the better tanks, they can make the difference between success and failure in combat.
Heinz Guderian

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

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

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

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

'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

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
Soichiro Honda

It is now up to the police to decide whether these donations were part of a conspiracy or an administrative failure.
Vince Cable

Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu

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

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

Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson

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

Not failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell Lowell

Gordon Brown and his 'new' Cabinet cannot escape the last 10 years. Labour's failures are their failures too.
Sir Menzies Campbell

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
Carly Fiorina

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
Ouida

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
Louis Boone

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

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer

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