Failure Quotes

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

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.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

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

Failure is a word unknown to me.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

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.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

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.