Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

In late 2003, Nokia started losing ground to its rivals after failing to gauge the popularity of folding phones and models with cameras and other new features. We put it down to the three Cs Nokia was weak in color, camera and clamshell, which were the three boom areas in 2003 and early 2004, ... It was quite a way behind the curve on those.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

We don't have the luxury of failure this year. This is a race about real Democrats, and real Democratic values. That's why I'm endorsing Patrick Murphy for Congress.

Katrina showed us the neglect of the government of the United States of America -- the failure of the state, the local, and the federal government. We charge America with criminal neglect.

The most important failing is that they divorce the study of the Holocaust from the war,

Success is that feeling that comes after overcoming a failure, you will not feel it as long as you are not failing, so be proud of your failures, they are the path to your success

Houston is feeling some of the pain from the failure of the New Orleans criminal justice system.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Failing in love is not sad, only failing to love is sad. Love may wound, but truly sad is the chance you miss when you don't put your heart on the line.

Charter schools are public schools. Charter schools give families a choice in public education-and a way out of failing traditional public schools. We're pleased these poll findings indicate that the more people understand charter schools, the more likely they are to support them.

Hopefully the lessons learned from our prior history of unsuccessful negotiations can provide a basis for this restart to take place in an atmosphere conducive to making more progress this time.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

To us, the high-resounding isms to which our contemporaries ask us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

We give up on our dreams, because we doubt self and struggle with fear of shame and failure, which prevents us from attempting, what seems to be unreachable. They are destiny robbers and keep us tied down in our comfort zone. A comfort zone is a place where were safe, but it is also a place of no growth.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize. . . the immense riches accumulated by the human race. . . . By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Children entering school today without basic reading knowledge are at risk of long term failure.

I believe that they're on the wrong side of history that the people of Iraq are moving away from them, including the Sunni community. They will ultimately be defeated. The question is not whether, but when.

Most of these accusations by the Ethics Commission are a direct result of failing to maintain proper record keeping.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Taking products designed for large companies and then retrofitting them to work for smaller businesses is a recipe for failure. It would be like a bus manufacturer changing the color of the bus from yellow to black, and then calling it a car.

Our efforts may look weak and limited in comparison with the government's strong and thunderous media campaign. Whether history proves the project to be a success or a failure, the fact remains that we were simply a group of journalists who took our profession very seriously. We tried to do what we felt was right at a time when we were needed.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

The administration projected the economy would gain 306,000 new jobs each month once the tax package was passed, ... So far, this has been a profound failure.

Those are the kinds of things you look back on and realize that so many people benefit from passing along their experiences, their successes and their failures. It meant a lot to me.

When the game's on the line, I just go out there like it's a normal kick, ... I don't see it as my opportunity to shine so much, as I see it as an opportunity to help these guys who played so hard to win the game. I don't talk or speak or make eye contact with anybody before a kick. I want time on my own. (Against San Diego), we went out there on third down to kick. I got comfortable, taking my (practice) steps. I didn't really hear the crowd. The Chargers tried to ice me (with a timeout) and I waited. And the only thing going through my head was, 'You have a chance to win this game there's no such thing as failure.'

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

These are the kind of tipping-point moments that have the potential to derail us, ... Incumbents suffer more when people believe there is a failure of leadership.

Most of the cloned animals through all kinds of species are abnormal. A lot of them die prematurely, or have all kinds of defects. Many cloned mice die immediately after birth because of breathing failure.

After listening to the tape we found that there was no mention of engine problems or a failure or emergency until the second approach.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

They're simple mistakes to correct, however inexcusable to make because they're simple positioning failures. And a couple times you lose, whether it's a battle in the corner or on the third goal a giveaway, moments like that at the end you look back as being the turning point.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

I think this project of democracy-building in Iraq has alarmed many authoritarian autocratic regimes in the region, ... Many of them are counting on our failure, and they have not been helpful.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.