Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Negligence is much easier to prove it's the failure to exercise reasonable care. Willful misconduct is a much higher standard. You must intentionally misbehave. ... The high standard would clearly discourage many suits.

My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Currently, about 500 GNC franchise operators have begun legal proceedings against GNC Corporation regarding a variety of matters ranging from unfair business practices to the Corporation's alleged violation of a federal court order. The GNOA doesn't want to use the courtroom to decide how the franchises should be run, ... If we can find ways to increase our bottom- line, the Corporation should assist, rather than resist. They can't guarantee our success, but, they shouldn't put us in a position to guarantee failure, either.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults.

With failure, you just try again.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

Iraq is proud to stand with the nations of the world as a country that upholds the core values of the UN charter, ... But Iraq also provides the test case for success or failure. We know our clear way forward, but we need your help. We need the help of every member nation and this organization to win this fight. We stick together or we lose together.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have not seen such an improvement . . . as I have in Illinois.

Failure is always an option.

These are the desperate acts of a desperate president who is going to try and drag this country through a cultural war to jump-start a failing campaign,

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

In my opinion, and also in the opinion of many, many Afghans, events in Afghanistan has proven that terrorism has no place in here, that it's defeated, that it's gone,

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

There is no logical reason why Newcastle haven't won a major domestic trophy for more than 50 years. Success breeds success. I think it's much more difficult to break a cycle of success than it is to break a cycle of failure and Newcastle are a good example of that.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

He didn't even try to make a defense for how well it's working or how it's going to improve. He was silent about it, and that spoke volumes about how the failure is being perceived in the White House.

We live in America, anyone that lives here should be able to understand 6th grade English or read at a 5th grade level. What is the difference what language the test is in It's the same test. As it is students that speak perfect English and can read are failing. What do we do for them

All significant achievement comes from daring, from experiment, from the willingness to risk failure.

Five years from now, we'd find our system very much in a point of failure. We would not be able to carry the amount of people we need to carry.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

Often companies are not aware of additional inconveniences caused by their service failures. They know the new TV you bought from them broke but don't know you had all of your friends over to watch the game when the picture went out.

It's a recipe for legislative gridlock - no action and the failure to bring Gopher stadium back here where it rightfully belongs.

Tragically, two years ago, we came once more to realize that we had let our guard down. We became lost in our hubris and learned once more the terrible price that must be paid for our failures. In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends.

The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far -- but that it has not gone far enough. And it points not to the failure of negotiations -- but to the futility of violence and force.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

There was no involvement of the Panthers, ... It was basically the abuse of testosterone or other things that showed the limitations of testing. It was not a failure of the program. It was the intrinsic limitations of testing that enabled them to go under the radar.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

We worry too much. Failure is inevitable, but failure is the mother of success. ... I'm never afraid to experiment (with) new things, to expand my horizons. ... In one year, I changed jobs six times. Some of them fired me, and some I fired them.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Failure has gone to his head.

Even if the pressurization system was failing, it doesn't fail instantaneously. You've got plenty of time to get to 12,000 feet.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong What if you're making a mistake you can't undo The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

Successes are successes and failures are failures we've definitely had our share of both, but we're reaching more donors and volunteers all the time.

It highlights our concern about the conduct of the government in Belarus leading up to the election, harassment of civil society and the political opposition, and the failure to seriously investigate the cases of the disappeared.

Failure is opportunity knocking on your door.

The Sept. 11 commission report stated that our biggest failure was one of 'imagination.' No one imagined that terrorists would do what they did on Sept. 11. Today few Americans can conceive of the possibility that terrorists could bring our society to its knees by destroying everything we rely on that runs on electricity. But this time we've been warned, and we'd better be prepared to respond.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.