Failure Quotes

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don't do it, it is not a good feeling. I don't want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

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

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.

A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.