Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)

He urged the Board to be more accountable for the failure and noted that the state's labels affect perceptions of parents, in fact the entire community is affected. ... we can do better ... you must demand improvement and accountability.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

It's more like a punishment for failing, rather than encouraging the students to improve themselves.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.

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.

I thought I had the world in my hand when I got called up. I needed that. I needed to be put in my place, and it was a good learning experience. Now, I know how to cope with failure. I know how to make the adjustments I need to be successful this year.

Fox has been a disappointment. He has not been a total failure. But all of a sudden we find that some of the instruments that make democracy possible are not working.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Democratic imperialism has led to more deaths not fewer. This political and military failure continues to cause scores of casualties among non-combatants. It is a failure that deserves to be a serious subject for research.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Similarly, if the summit outcome doesn't include the need to control small arms, which are the real weapons of destruction, and does not include the need for all developed nations to spend 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) in overseas aid, this historic chance for reform will result in failure,

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure ... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. -

There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If they didn't fix the systems, they would not be functioning. Somebody said we did it too well, we made it look too easy. Maybe that's right. Maybe we should have had a control group over here failing.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that -- they are utter failures.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

This plan has failed. We should not keep half of a failure or a quarter of a failure, ... Let's change the policy and do something else.

The Lees were very concerned about this biased and unfair media coverage and requested that this activity stop, but they were unsuccessful.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

It should be in normal shops. Failing that, I'm sure one of the Amazon webshops will have it, if you try the different countries.

I think this is just an outrage. I think people feel defeated.

Women tend to have more diastolic heart failure.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

I never take joy in publicly criticizing my President but questions about the failure of his leadership in the planning and implementation of rescue efforts --- whether now or when the dust settles-have to be asked, ... If a country knows they're going to be attacked whether by Mother Nature or by terrorists, they must be prepared and it's obvious that the federal government was not prepared.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

It should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010, ... There is an enormous amount at stake... Failure to make progress could even be fatal for the trade round.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

Marc does a tremendous job of monitoring where the players are at. To get stronger, you have to go until you can't lift anymore. You have to go until failure, and he does a tremendous job of getting them to work through the pain.

We're up against an ocean of entertainment shows, and we've got one of the most famous (news brand) names in TV. That, to me, is not a failing situation.

Maryland horsemen and breeders to pay for all of Magna's (business) failures, not only in Maryland but everywhere else. And they have been emboldened to do it here because they believe they have a compliant racing commission that will rubber stamp their plans.

Failure has no friends.

Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don't like to see the Vice President of the U. S. providing pretty explicit endorsement of this practice, because canned hunting violates all the rhetoric that hunters use to justify themselves. Hunting is supposed to involve a fair chase with the animal having an opportunity to evade the hunter. But this eliminates the possibility of failure.

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.