My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
~By Humphry Davy ~
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
~By John Keats ~
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
~By Ron Dellums ~
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
~By Daniel Webster ~
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
~By Lee Scott ~
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
~By Don Nickles ~
Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.
~By Melinda M. Marshall ~
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
~By Bill Gates ~
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I believe only in art and failure.
~By Jane Rule ~
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.
~By Shane Leslie ~
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.
~By Victor Kiam ~
First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
~By Bill Cosby ~
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
~By James Allen ~
Nothing fails like failure.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
~By H. Stanley Judd ~
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
~By Anne Baxter ~
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
~By An Wang ~
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
~By George Eliot ~
Failure has gone to his head.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
~By Paul Getty ~
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Failure is impossible.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
~By Arthur C. Danto ~
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
~By Robert Orben ~
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
~By William Hurt ~
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~By John Wooden ~
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
~By Alice James ~
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~By Edward Abbey ~
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
~By Michael Korda ~
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
~By Hans Eysenck ~
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
~By Soichiro Honda ~
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
~By Jerry Brown ~
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
~By Malcolm X ~
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
~By Camille Paglia ~
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.
~By John Mica ~
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
~By Larry Elder ~
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
~By John Burroughs ~
Failure is a word unknown to me.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
~By James Tobin ~
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
~By Arthur Miller ~
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
~By Buddha ~
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
~By James Dyson ~
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
~By Don Johnson ~
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
~By William Howard Taft ~
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
~By Alan Hansen ~
It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
~By Rick Pitino ~
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~By John Burroughs ~
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
~By Elias Canetti ~
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
~By James M. Barrie ~
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.
~By Mike Peters ~
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
~By E. Franklin Frazier ~
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
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