Quotes About Failure

I have a bad history with resolutions! I don't think I have kept up even one of them so far. Once, I promised to myself that I would wake up at 6 A.M. every day - it didn't even last for a week.

I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

People around the world are asking their political leaders legitimate questions about their tax arrangements. And yet, in the case of David Cameron, it is his failure to provide complete answers that has aroused the desire for further scrutiny.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

I try not to buy pork pies but sometimes I fail.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

'Failing fast' is an important component of cultivating the agility needed for a development project along with continually rebalancing your innovation portfolio.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.

Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.