A Failure Quotes

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

It is the empiric who never fails.

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

Most progress is most failure.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

Failure is just success rounded down.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

Failure is a resource that can be managed.

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

"Failure" isn't a word I really use.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.