Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he 'lost his election'.

But it marks, to some degree, a failure on our part to communicate the message,

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Any decision belongs to the Security Council and the Security Council alone, which will address the issue after having examined the latest inspectors' report, ... Secondly, as far as we're concerned, war always means failure.

We could have gone undefeated in the regular season and lost in the first or second round and felt like a failure. This year, in my mind, we're a little bit of an underdog. If we make a great run, we would be surprising some people.

The resolution should be amended, not defeated, because the president needs to be reminded that separation of powers does not mean an isolation of powers. He needs to be told he cannot simply ignore a law with no consequences.

Keep these concepts in mind You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim.... R. H. Macy failed 7 times before his store in New York caught on. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

All of this is creating great, great decentralization and a failure to provide services. Until they get a real central government, they're not going to provide any effective central authority. This is going to require some time, a long time.

The main problem is that Washington is in denial about the economic failure, ... More Latin American leaders are aware of it, but it does not seem to be discussed. What is needed at a bare minimum is some discussion about what has gone wrong.

That's definitely our mind-set. Everything else would be a failure. We expect to be No. 1 in the ACC and, at the end of the day, be the No. 1 team in the country. Last year, we got up to No. 3. The only way you can do that is you have to keep improving.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

This President is a miserable failure.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Blaming other people and circumstances leads to automatic failure.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

The French protectionist model is doomed to failure. Better to follow the examples from London and Berlin.

Mrs. Rutledge told me that in those last two or three weeks of his illness, he was failing, but he wanted her to take him downtown,

If you have peer-to-peer software on your company computer, you must remove it immediately, ... Failure to do so, and the failure to respect music copyrights may lead to disciplinary action, including termination. Beginning shortly, we will scan our computer network to detect the presence of file sharing software on company computers.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

I believe only in art and failure.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

Failure is a word he does not accept. Ebony was launched to provide positive images and positive role models for black Americans. It is still doing that.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

The range of views now include a unified consensus that the failures are Iraq's, that the consequences are Iraq's and that the international community believes that Saddam Hussein is failing to comply with his required obligations.

When they step in the very first day, it's all success. Many of the students have already had the failure experience, so they are a bit apprehensive about taking academic risks. That's really what learning is all about. They need to feel comfortable stating an answer even though it may be wrong.

It is not spoken about much, but the dot-com failure was a result of throwing technology solutions at problems or industries that the company knew nothing about.

Blame - The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure Seek it out. Learn to love it.

Steve understands the campaign-like nature of current judicial confirmations, and that the day-to-day pushback and defining the nominee can make all the difference between success and failure.

From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows of those who went before.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past.... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.... we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 what happens to me and 90 how I react to it. And so it is with you ... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

efficient resolution of Y2K failures by allowing defendants the opportunity to remedy the failure and correct the situation before facing a lawsuit.

True is the Master, and True is His Justice only the sinners are defeated.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

We should not be so detached from reality as to treat an advisory opinion as though it were binding, and binding Palestinian obligations as though they were nonexistent. This is not a recipe for progress, it is a sure recipe for failure.

From the time that the company got its first unwarrantable failure, that put them on alert that those examinations weren't being conducted properly. Such unwarrantable failure is just intolerable, and that should be referred to the U.S. attorney for possible criminal prosecution.

The Johnstown flood was not an act of God or nature. It was brought by human failure, human shortsightedness and selfishness.