Quotes about Failure

“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.”

“If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.”

“Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.”

“I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.”

“Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.”

“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”

“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.”

“There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.”

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

“Nothing fails like failure.”

“Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

“'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.”

“No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.”

“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”

“I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.”

“Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.”

“Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.”

“I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.”