Quotes about Failure

“There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.”

“Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.”

“It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.”

“The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.”

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.”

“One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.”

“This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.”

“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”

“I have never feared failure.”

“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”

“I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.”

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”

“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

“Chernobyl happened in April of 1986. A few months earlier, in January 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It did not have the impact on the environment and the amount of lives that Chernobyl did, but it was the result of the same exact problem: a failure of a lot of people and institutions over a long period of time.”

“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.”

“I had it all: congestive heart failure, malignant high blood pressure, kidney damage, enlarged heart, sleep apnea, borderline diabetic, etc.”

“All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.”

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

“Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.”

“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.”