Failure Quotes

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

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.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.