Failure Quotes

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.

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

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

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

You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it's better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don't wait for something; just go for it.