Failure Quotes

"I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government"

Scott Brown, Politician

"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

"With failure, you just try again"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best"

Maude Adams, Actress

"We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself"

Dennis Ross

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail"

Mike Murdock, Clergyman

"To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

"I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections"

Hart Crane, Poet

"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes"

Tom Cochrane, Musician

"Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation"

Paul Twitchell, Celebrity

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame"

Gerry Beckley, Musician

"But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock"

Don Nickles, Politician

"In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure"

Anna Neagle, Actress

"The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement"

Anna Garlin Spencer

"It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"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

"My life has been nothing but a failure"

Claude Monet, Artist

"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom"

Erik Erikson, Psychologist

"Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success"

James Dyson, Designer

"The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment"

Chris Hedges, Journalist

"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final"

Roger Babson, Educator

"In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding"

Burt Rutan, Scientist

"Success is 99 percent failure"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

"His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you"

Oliver Hudson, Actor

"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

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