Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)

This administration is forced to follow this route because of the failures of Iraq.

1. Replace your garage door with one labeled impact-resistant. ... after Charley, home after home had garage door failure.

Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods.

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Failure to meet market expectations here will reinforce the market perception that the peak in US rates is clear, putting the dollar under renewed pressure.

We now have a very small window in which to stop this crisis turning into a catastrophe. The implications of failing to step up the aid effort now will not just be starvation, it could also bring large scale conflict to the region. It's not too late to avert the worst of this, but it soon will be.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

The majority of today's pure-play Internet companies will never make money and will not exist in three-to-five years. There will be a lot of consolidation and a lot of failure, and ultimately valuations will fall more in line with historical norms.

The pain of failing is temporary. That feeling that you get when you finally achieve your dream lasts for the rest of your life

Which fall'st into the soul like rain
Upon the Siroc-wither'd plain,
And, failing in thy power to bless,
But leav'st the heart a wilderness!

Failing to provide children adequate access to nutritious food not only endangers their emotional, physical and mental development, but it also puts all aspects of their future well-being at risk. The costs are too high when you short-change children.

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I would also like to have a comprehensive agreement, but I wouldn't want to have a comprehensive failure, ... That would be a catastrophe.

Gore received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Florida, ... And the decision was made as you know by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the U.S. Supreme Court, so I would say in 2000, there was a failure.

If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.

There were polling places in places like Houston, Detroit and other cities...to give Iraqis in the United States the chance to vote in person, not by mail, not by Internet, not by any form of electronic or distant communications. The failure of the state, in this regard, to establish satellite voting outside of Louisiana makes no sense and invites problems, confusion and perhaps even more than that.

That's a popular misconception. It's not the dollar amount spent, but the time spent in making sure every little detail relates to the message. Failure to connect the dots is a death sentence for meeting planners.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

When you are piling things on top of each other, by nature you will have a pyramid shape. Your mass will be bigger at the bottom, smaller than what you have up higher. When you have wave action, if it is going close to the top, it will start working its way through the structure, which can erode it and create a failure.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Attorney Robert Clifford said he did not know what the instructor said, but accused American Flyers of failing to tell Hock how to give the controller her proper location and how to keep a safe lookout. Like the driver of a car, Collins had the right-of-way, Clifford said, because he had been authorized to make a final approach to land. Bob Collins did nothing wrong that day, ... And Bob Collins had every reason to believe his path was clear for an authorized landing, and that if there was other traffic in the area, that traffic would have lined up behind him as it should have, and permitted him to land uneventfully. This event could have been avoided completely.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Theirs is a campaign that explicitly excluded Democrats in every way. But it's now very explicitly reaching out to Democrats, and, we think, they will be wholly unsuccessful.

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

The consequences of a failure of nerve to deal with the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are potentially devastating for Muslims and non-Muslims alike,

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingcr posts on thc road to achievement. The only time you don't fail is the last time you try something, and it works. One fails forward toward success.

Failure to move now or to signal new determination to (do so) will make these weapons accepted currency,

It is easy, of course, to fault a decision that ends in failure, once hindsight makes the result of that decision plain to see. But the essence of business is risk the application of informed belief to contingencies whose outcomes can sometimes be predicted, but never known,

NMA leaders noted with appreciation that both liberal and conservative leaders have strongly criticized the federal response. The people of the Gulf Coast were struck by two disasters, ... first the Hurricane, and then the failure of the federal government in their time of great need.

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

We found that the pictures you have seen, as revolting as they are, were not the result of any doctrine, training or policy failures, but violations of the law and misconduct,

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

It is so much easier to forgive a failure than a success.

Let him not despise himself on account of former failures, until death let him seek fortune, nor despair of gaining it.

Moreover, perfectionist standards do not allow for failure. They do not even allow for life, and certainly not death.

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

It appears that the data we hear about hedge funds' performance is absolute noise. Even if you accept the unique aspect of self-selected self-reporting, you can't wash out all the failures and expect people to buy your 'perception' of performance.

It costs a whole lot more to do that, but the results of not doing it for us, from a business perspective, were much higher than the cost of doing it initially. One breach or one failure could cost us all of our partners.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

I can remember back in the 70s all you had to do, basically, was go to class and not be failing. Long as you were not on probation by your university, you were eligible.

We sell ourselves enormously short in our Asia Pacific region by taking this supportive stand of the United States. That is a major failing.

A successful person is the product of their life just the same as a failure. The difference is that successful people have learned how to use the same challenges we all face as opportunities to learn and grow.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

These kind of games really make us better. Success sometimes comes from failure.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.