Failure Quotes

• Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • High
  • Failure
  • Tolerance

• The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Jesus
  • Thanks
  • Blessing

• The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Failure

• The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

  

  Brian Simo
  • Success
  • Failure

• At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

  

  Elisabetta Canalis
  • Pretty
  • Failure
  • Goodbye

• The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Road

• “Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.”

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

  

  Joyce Brothers
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Success

• The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

  

  Herodotus
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Secret

• Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Action
  • Planning

• The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

  

  Bob Rice
  • Communication
  • Investors
  • Discussions

• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Invisible
  • Standing
  • Marketplace

• Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

  

  Al Pacino
  • Freedom
  • Always
  • Movies

• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  

  Donald Freed
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Night

• Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Country
  • Honor

• We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Remember
  • Ignore
  • Chances

• Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Failure
  • Cautiously

• Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Today
  • Sad
  • Immaturity

• The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Country
  • America
  • Freedom

• What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • World
  • May
  • She

• Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • People
  • Failure

• Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Professional

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