Failure Quotes

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Companies that get in trouble have a failure to see two realities: market trends and competitor attacks.

Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

You are NOT a financial failure if you rent. You are getting something for your money. A roof over your head.

Strength is magical, just a little bit more can mean the difference between success and failure.

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

You've got to admit failure sometimes.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.