Failure Quotes

Don't come home a failure.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

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.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

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

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.