Quotes About Failure

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

I nodded sagely. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Masur looked at me quizzically. "Dan Quayle said that," I added. Whether he actually did or not, I liked the quote.

Any government that allow schoolchildren to be murdered even once has to be thought of as flawed, but a government that repeatedly lets its children, and other innocents, be killed has to be considered a failure. As the head of such a government, responsibility for that failure begins, but doesn't end, with me.

Dave frowned. "You`re telling me about a failure. What happened?

The Hobbesian state of nature is really just a state of total market failure. Out of this state of nature, we have been able to build up a set of institutions that promote co-operation and therefore improve efficiency. Markets are one institution of this type. But they are extremely limited in their range, since property rights apply only to a tiny fraction of the ingredients we require for successful living.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

the general ignominy that is the corollary of insight, i.e., the ignominy of having thus far lived in error, of having failed, until the moment of so-called insight, to understand what could have been understood earlier, an ignominy only deepened by prospective shame, because the moment of insight serves as a reminder that more such moments lie ahead, and that one always goes forward in error.

It was that hard; I still feel that way. But I believe that President Bush failed to lead. History will judge him harshly not for the mistakes he made- we all make mistakes- but for the opportunities he squandered.

wanted to be a great warrior and a good mentor more than anything else, but it seemed painfully clear that Tigerclaw was just waiting for him to fail.

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

No, we always get killed because of you, Leeroy Jenkins!

I felt like I'd just been picked last for the world's biggest game of kickball.

That was a giant ball of fail. What now?

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software!

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout,But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.

We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of pain that we never discover how strong we really are.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.