Failure Quotes

If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Without failure there is no achievement.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

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.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.