Failure quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B C Forbes

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

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

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller

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

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

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

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

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a PhD.
Nelson Algren

We are all failures – at least the best of us are.
J M Barrie

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

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

The fact is that we're too old to make each other miserable, and that's a good thing, not a bad thing, so don't take your failure to make the list personally. [High Fidelity]
Nick Hornby

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Micky Rooney

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

'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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

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

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag

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

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life
Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn

The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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