Quotes about Failure

“But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.”

“You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.”

“I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”

“It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.”

“If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.”

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

“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”

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

“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.”

“Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.”

“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”

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

“I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.”

“To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.”

“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.”

“The only risk of failure is promotion.”

“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.”

“In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.”

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”

“I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.”

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.”