Failure Quotes
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
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Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
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Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can't justify them, as they apply to people.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
