Failure Quotes

"The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product"

Brian Harris

"I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry"

Rodney Alexander, Politician

"Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process"

Roger von Oech

"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure"

Sheila Jackson Lee, Politician

"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk"

Rosalynn Carter, First Lady

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have"

Louis E. Boone, Author

"It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now"

Mike Peters, Cartoonist

"Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts"

Melinda M. Marshall

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure"

George Edward Woodberry, Critic

"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"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold"

Edward Bach, Scientist

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure"

Errol Flynn, Actor

"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan"

Alan Price, Musician

"Every failure is a step to success"

William Whewell, Philosopher

"I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success"

Bonnie Hunt, Actress

"Not failure, but low aim is sin"

Benjamin E. Mays, Educator

"If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General"

Daniel Inouye, Politician

"I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail"

Alice Foote MacDougall

"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes"

Greil Marcus, Author

"This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone"

Edmond H. Fischer, Scientist

"The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility"

Dale Dauten

"When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure"

Maude Adams, Actress

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final"

Roger Babson, Educator

"Don't come home a failure"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"Failure is unfortunately as common as success"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse"

John Drinkwater, Poet

"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas"

James M. Baldwin

"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death"

Rupert Holmes, Composer

"Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success"

Mark Skousen, Economist

"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit"

Napolean Hill, Author

"And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head"

Malcolm Mclaren, Musician

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities"

Napolean Hill, Author

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