Failure Quotes: Embracing Life's Lessons (Page 7)

"Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral"

Rosalind Russell, Actress

"Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure"

Simon Hoggart, Journalist

"Failure is a word that I simply don't accept"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life"

William Feather, Author

"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"Never permit failure to become a habit"

William Frederick Book

"I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed"

George Allen, Politician

"Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

"The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate"

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"Success is never final, but failure can be"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word"

Roger Daltrey, Musician

"What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"I believe only in art and failure"

Jane Rule, Author

"The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education"

John Hersey, Writer

"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense"

John Hersey, Writer

"I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring"

Tom Baker, Actor

"I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long"

Shannen Doherty, Actress