Quotes About Failure

Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.

You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.

Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime and punishment.

By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.

As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

If you had a game that said, 'Oops, you're dead. Now switch off the game,' it wouldn't be very successful. So you do need to have something to teach and be there to learn from, and we feel that death in video games is a positive experience.

I'm pretty bad at video games.

I suck at video games.

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.