Quotes About Failure

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way.

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

The rabbis of the Talmud opined that Saul failed as a leader because there were no scandals in his past, that he lacked skeletons in his closet to keep him wary. By that measure, our leaders of today are brilliantly qualified, but it seems to me that Saul's failure came from elsewhere. He failed because Samuel and David wounded him fatally, not only by their actions but by their presence, by their very nature and his.

There's only one true test of a comedy, and that's outright laughter. I don't care how beautiful the lighting is, how superlative the script is, how wonderful the performances are. If you're making a comedy and the audience isn't falling down, holding their bellies, screaming with laughter, you've probably got a failure. First laughter and then everything else.

The damage that Stephen Harper has managed to inflict on so many aspects of Canadian democracy in just a few short years is frightening. That we have failed to stop it from happening, even more

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Goddammit. Can't I save you just once ?

the closest I can come to describing what the theater is like. A barbaric free-for-all in which should you ever win, you are for sure going to fall flat on your face or your ass.9

Success is not served in a tray, To achieve it we have to make our own way, I would like to end by saying that opportunity is within, To fall down on our journey is not a sin, But our failure should not hold our steps forward, And for our dreams, we should never feel awkward

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

view any failure, no matter how small, as a window on the system as a whole.

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

Says Sullivan, "Those guys used to get together in the van and put their hands all together and then Paul would say, 'Where are we going?' And the band would go, 'To the middle!' And he'd go, 'Which middle?' And they'd go, 'The very middle!' " But it was all false modesty. The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Education is the key," he drilled into me. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

Crises will come and go in all countries, more often in some than in others; at these moments, someone has to lead, has to make sure that while the crisis is addressed, it doesn't overwhelm the pre-existing agenda for change. Allow that, and failure beckons. Hence Harold Macmillan's famous lament about why he had not achieved more: 'Events, dear boy! Events.

Without stratagems would a people fall, and deliverance is in a wise counsel.