Failure Quotes - page 7

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. (Roger von Oech)
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. View quote
Sean Lennon
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. View quote
Thomas Haden Church
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. View quote
Xavier Becerra
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. View quote
Germaine Greer
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. View quote
Daniel Webster
The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. View quote
James Agate
No other success can compensate for failure in the home. View quote
David O. McKay
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. View quote
Howard Zinn
Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. (George Eliot)
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with. View quote
Dorothy Day
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. View quote
Colin Powell
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. View quote
Albert Bandura
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm it mocks hope it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. View quote
Wallace Stevens
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes. View quote
Madeleine Albright
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. View quote
Vin Diesel
We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Success is somebody else's failure. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
With the American failure came world failure. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Failure is success if we learn from it. View quote
Malcolm Forbes