Failure Quotes - page 10

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes. (John Buchan)
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. View quote
Enoch Powell
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. View quote
George Orwell
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth. View quote
William Whewell
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. View quote
Amelia Earhart
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital. View quote
David Harvey
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. (Mitch Daniels)
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. View quote
Walter Pater
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. View quote
Northrop Frye
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. View quote
James A. Michener
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history. View quote
David Cross
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows. View quote
Michael Behe
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. View quote
Zig Ziglar
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. View quote
Zig Ziglar
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. (Alan Hansen)
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it. View quote
John Steinbeck
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst-for me, at least-is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky. View quote
Stephen King
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. View quote
Sylvester Stallone