Quotes about Failure

“Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.”

“If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.”

“The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.”

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

“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”

“If you try to do your best there is no failure.”

“It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.”

“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.”

“Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.”

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

“Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.”

“The wisest of the wise may err.”

“The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.”

“There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

“In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.”

“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.”

“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”

“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”

“I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.”

“I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.”

“Failure too is a form of death.”