Quotes about Failure

“The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.”

“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.”

“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”

“My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.”

“Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.”

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”

“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”

“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.”

“I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.”

“Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.”

“So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.”

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

“An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.”

“It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.”

“We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”

“One should accept failure, and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn again.”

“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.”

“As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.”