Quotes About Failure

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.