Quotes About Failure

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

War is an admission of failure

Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.