Quotes about Failure

“Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.”

“Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.”

“Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.”

“If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.”

“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.”

“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”

“We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.”

“Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.”

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”

“I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.”

“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.”

“I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.”

“When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.”

“I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.”

“Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.”

“Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.”

“Without intellectual honesty, you can't have a culture that's willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn't working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can't admit failure.”

“When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.”

“There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.”

“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”

“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”