Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic.

We have had some failures in the past where people have had considerable amounts of money in individual retirement accounts. They've suffered significant losses. But that coverage will go up to 250,000 per person when we change this rule.

You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall all the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

The retail came more out of a necessity of a failing property. He and his son were able to effectively turn it around and built what later became Dayton's.

Let there be no disguising the perilous state of earth, or pretending that conservation is too expensive when we know that the cost of failure to act is far greater,

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

Bush may make serious attempts at reforming the tax code and social security he's much less concerned with the risk of failure than previous presidents have been. The expected need to replace two or three Supreme Court justices, however, could so poison the water in Washington that very little will get done. (That is, unless he nominates Professor Tyson, who would be a model jurist).

failure to agree to meaningful protections against pricing abuse means competitors can be squeezed out of the market and consumers face price increases.

Success is never ending failure is never final.

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

There is a lot of proof supporting the U.S. case against Iraq -- the proof of failure to allow inspectors in and failure to allow inspectors, once in, to conduct inspections in an unfettered manner.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

It is clear that the debt limit must be increased. Failure to approve an increase would have dire consequences for government finances and financial markets. Delaying action on an increase until the last possible moment, forcing Treasury to utilize extraordinary measures to avoid a default, is unnecessary and irresponsible. However, under the current fiscal circumstances approving a large-scale increase in the debt limit without a plan to restore fiscal discipline would also be irresponsible.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

You succeed at being a failure when you blame someone else.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Nighttime is one of the more crucial times -- if there was radio failure, how would anybody know

While the intention of the Vatican is noble, to make sure our seminaries are not contributing to the clergy abuse scandals, the means is doomed to failure, ... It is already being perceived as a witch hunt by some. Moreover, it is unfair, if not unjust, to committed, faithful, celibate gay priests and seminarians. And it will most likely drive gay seminarians and clergy even deeper into their closets.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Failure to resolve requests via email is driving continued use of cost-intensive telephone work, negating any potential cost savings from handling inquiries via email.

Those players, they have a different way of playing. If they're looking at you and you're not with them, they think you're a failure. So I told Kwame he has to go in and use that energy toward the basketball floor to get in good with those guys.

Worship is the most beautiful failure. For worship is like saying to God, Look, Lord, I love you more than you love me. To which God replies, Not a chance buddy.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures. These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

Personally I'm quite jovial with not much worry. I do my best, which is moderation, and failure doesn't matter.

We view this with all seriousness. There was long-standing neglect in the failure to get veterinary treatment.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

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.

Derision, cynicism, prejudice, stereotyping and hunger for stories of failure than of success will be the undoing of democratic progress on the continent.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

This area is just one more example of the failures of executive agencies tasked with disaster relief in responding to this greatest natural disaster ever to confront our nation,

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

His movement has transformed successfully from one organization into about 14 organizations that spread out across the world, ... Efforts by the Pakistani Army to go after bin Laden, the so-called spring and summer offensives, have again and again ended in failure.

It is critical for people to organize and react against the abuse of market power. This is a political reaction, as clear evidence that the economic market is not working. Whenever you have to discipline an economic power, it's a demonstration of the failure of market forces.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.