failure
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘failure’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Failure is not fatal victory is not success.” -Tony Richardson
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“There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that’s if we quit.” -Craig Breedlove
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“The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?” -Aldrich Ames
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“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” -Burt Rutan
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“We are equally glad and surprised at Winston’s return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.” -Shane Leslie
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“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” -Colin R. Davis
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“After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.” -Kurt Student
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“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.” -Simon Hoggart
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“Never permit failure to become a habit.” -William Frederick Book
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“Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.” -Ron Dellums
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“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.” -Montgomery Clift
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“I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.” -Elie Tahari
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“Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.” -E. Franklin Frazier
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“Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.” -Dale Dauten
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“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.” -Edward Dowden
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“It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.” -Edmond H. Fischer
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“Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.” -Michael Ramsey
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“I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.” -Michael Malone
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“Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.” -Hildegard Knef
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“Don’t take too much comfort in the fact that you’re successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There’s no surety in life.” -Michael Savage
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“It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.” -Arthur C. Danto
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“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.” -Edward Eggleston
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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” -Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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“As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.” -Jason Giambi
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“Y’know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.” -Paul Twitchell
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“I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.” -George Allen
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“I’ve criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It’s not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That’s how we’re gonna do it, not by enlarging government.” -Scott Brown
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“You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.” -An Wang
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“The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington’s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.” -Ed Case
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“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.” -William Empson
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“It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.” -Mike Peters
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“Our managers hadn’t had that kind of success – the record company hadn’t, we hadn’t – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn’t it would be some kind of failure.” -Roland Gift
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“With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.” -Gordon Moore
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“The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.” -Millicent Fawcett
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“I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.” -Rodney Alexander
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“I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.” -Alice Foote MacDougall
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“At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.” -Robert Farrar Capon
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“I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.” -George Edmund Street
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“And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that’s a…
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“Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.” -Michael Crawford
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“When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.” -Maude Adams
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“Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.” -Roger von Oech
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“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay
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“It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.” -Gavyn Davies
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“The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.” -Hart Crane
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“It’s a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.” -John Hersey
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“I’ve learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you’ll feel like you’re a failure or when you’re disappointed in yourself.” -Bryce Dallas Howard
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“Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it’s beautiful, it’s tough, it’s buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It’s covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.” -Greg Bear
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“Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.” -Alvin Adams
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“My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!” -Takeshi Kitano
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“We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn’t handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn’t meant to be.” -Christie Brinkley
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“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.” -Frederic William Farrar
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“When I got Jacob’s Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn’t allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I’d be,’out of there.’” -Elizabeth Pena
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“A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.” -Arthur Bloch
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“The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.” -Anna Garlin Spencer
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“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.” -Frederick Smith
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“One failure is worth seven and a half successes.” -Eli Khamarov
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“In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure – and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.” -Naveen Jain
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“I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.” -Shinzo Abe
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“To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.” -Mark Edwards
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“I know acts and I’m not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it’s considered a failure and they’re dropped and that’s really a shame.” -Gerry Beckley
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“Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it’s slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character’s sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That’s a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it’s true.”…
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“Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.” -Matt Blunt
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“Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.” -James M. Baldwin
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“Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.” -Cory Lidle
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“Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.” -Felicity Kendal
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“I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.” -Emanuel Steward
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“It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress’s failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.” -Jon Corzine
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“You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don’t get failures, you’re not pushing hard enough on the objectives.” -John Poindexter
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“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.” -John Larroquette
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“Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.” -Henry Knox
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“Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.” -Daniel Inouye
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“In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.” -Carol Gilligan
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“At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.” -Elisabetta Canalis
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“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.” -Alice James
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“If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.” -Rosalynn Carter
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“Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.” -Justin Guarini
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“Everybody keeps saying that India’s a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.” -Vijay Mallya
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“Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.” -Rick Pitino
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“The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.” -Bruno Bettelheim
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“I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.” -Corey Hart
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“The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.” -John P. Kotter
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“I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I’m not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.” -Andrew Vachss
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“Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.” -Tom Kite
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“But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.” -Robert E. Howard
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“Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton’s personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission – his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond…
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“You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.” -Jim Dale
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“We can’t have a failure in Iraq, but we also can’t be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it’s going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.” -Dennis Ross
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“The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.” -Anna Neagle
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“In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.” -Hans Eysenck
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“The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success – or failure.” -Arthur C. Brooks
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“I’m fascinated by failure, and I’m fascinated by finality. Shakespeare’s historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.” -George Hickenlooper
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“Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.” -Koichi Tanaka
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“Our nation’s Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.” -Pete Sessions
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“And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can’t think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.” -Harvey Korman
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“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.” -Napolean Hill
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“My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down.” -Jerry Rice
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“I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.” -John Sherman Cooper
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“If you’re a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you’re considered a failure.” -Jamie Moyer
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“A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.” -Robin Tunney
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“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.” -John Mica
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“This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.” -Albert Claude
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“But thankfully, my first album, ‘Wide Screen,’ was sort of a critics’ darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn’t even in the running for failure!” -Rupert Holmes
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“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.” -Harry Oppenheimer
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“Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.” -William Irwin Thompson
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“America’s most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.” -Cal Thomas
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“Failure’s not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.” -Billy Dee Williams
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“A love of nature is a consolation against failure.” -Berthe Morisot
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“With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.” -Christian Marclay
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“It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!” -Agnetha Faltskog
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“I made a very conscious effort to finish ‘The Cypress House’ before ‘So Cold the River’ launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.” -Michael Koryta
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“The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.” -Rosalyn S. Yalow
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“The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.” -Brian Harris
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“By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.” -Sheila Jackson Lee
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“Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures – you’ve just got to be sure that it’s a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.” -Malcolm Mclaren
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“Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.” -Xavier Becerra
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“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.” -Paddy Ashdown
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“In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person’s life chances, so we’re less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it’s much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.” -Toby Young
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“Critics? Don’t talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don’t.” -Jonathan Raban
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“Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.” -Stuart Rose
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“His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don’t let the fear of failure stop you.” -Oliver Hudson
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“Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.” -Cathy Rigby
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“There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.” -Marvin Minsky
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“It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.” -Chris Van Hollen
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“The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.” -Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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“I – and I still consider myself, I’m sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn’t help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.” -Slavoj Zizek
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“Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?” -Chester W. Nimitz
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“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.” -James Lane Allen
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“Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.” -Richard V. Allen
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“We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.” -Alan Shearer
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“The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.” -Major Taylor
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“If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.” -Ruben Hinojosa
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“I feel that ‘The Great Failure’ is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.” -Natalie Goldberg
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“Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.” -Steve Forbes
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“I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I’m trying my best. So I’ve had a ‘blood, guts and glory’ approach through my whole life.” -Ali Larter
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“Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn’t have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.” -Michael Chertoff
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“My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That’s going to be really, really hard. I’m glad I learned the lesson, ‘Failure is OK.’” -Dana Fox
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“I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.” -Molly Ringwald
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“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.” -Don Nickles
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“There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, ‘What is going on?’ You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide…
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“Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I’m talking about welfare for all. Without it, you’re going to have warfare for…
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“I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.” -Jeff Tweedy
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“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.” -Zbigniew Brzezinski
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“You can’t be afraid of failure and you can’t be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.” -Dave Van Ronk
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“So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.” -Allen Tate
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“I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.” -Bonnie Hunt
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“Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.” -Estelle Morris
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“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.” -Michael Baden
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“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.” -Alan Hansen
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“My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.” -Laurence Housman
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“I’ve had great success and I’ve had catastrophic failure. It’s really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.” -Peter Berg
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“Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.” -Zach Wamp
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“Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.” -Matt Emmons
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“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.” -Sonia Johnson
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“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.” -Bill Moyers
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“I think there’s something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.” -China Mieville
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“I don’t know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they’ve got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.” -Sam Donaldson
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“Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.” -Jim Clyburn
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“The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.” -Hideki Tojo
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“There’s no such thing as failure – just waiting for success.” -John Osborne
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“The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.” -James F. Byrnes
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“Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there’s the opportunity seeds of great success. They’re not miles apart. So if they’re that close together, and if you’re really working, you’re always gonna have that likelihood that something’s not going to work.” -Peter Guber
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“Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.” -Adam Schiff
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“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.” -Sydney Pollack
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“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.” -Phyllis Schlafly
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“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.” -Hugh Grant
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“Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.” -Lee H. Hamilton
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“I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.” -Tom Baker
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“I’d like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.” -Susie Orbach
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“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done. Once I was married, I didn’t want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.” -Shannen Doherty
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“But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.” -Thomas Haden Church
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