Failure Quotes

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

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

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

'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

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience
Rachel Elnaugh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams

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

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

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

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

I always turn to the sports section first... the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick Blackett

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

There is always time for failure.
John Mortimer

Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Philip Caldwell



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