Failure Quotes

• The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.

  

  David Malpass
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Failure

• Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • Men
  • Women
  • Business

• If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Success
  • Failure

• I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Great
  • Today
  • Success

• The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Pressure

• The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understand
  • Evangelism

• Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Bad
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • People
  • Time
  • Die

• In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Age
  • Failure

• Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Failure
  • Adversity
  • Heartache

• With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Failure

• ...experimental physics was particularly interested in the processes taking place inside the atom, and in this field the classical mechanics was failing conspicuously and completely. Perhaps its most spectacular failure was with the fundamental problem with the structure of the atom.

  

  James Jeans
  • Failure

• Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • World
  • Business
  • Failure

• Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Failure
  • Babe
  • Ruth

• On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • World
  • War
  • Failure

• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  

  Alan Shearer
  • Game
  • Success
  • Confidence

• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Children
  • Failure

• I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Kids
  • Career

• There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Life
  • Achievement
  • Stones

• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  

  James Mark Baldwin
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Balance

• I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • People
  • Failure

• Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Failure

• When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Wife
  • Failure
  • Chinese

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