Quotes About Failure

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.