Quotes About Failure

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

You can't expect success. It's a process. Part of getting to success is failure.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

An existence transfigured by failure.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.