Failure Quotes
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In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
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The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
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Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.
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When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.
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While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
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I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.
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The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.
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"Failure" isn't a word I really use.
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I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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There is an explanation to these companies’ failure to implement Lean; an explanation that is apparent to any objective observer of a company like Hitachi Tool Engineering. The failure is due to the fundamental difference in the production environments. When Taiichi Ohno developed TPS, he didn’t do it in the abstract; he developed it for his company. It is no wonder that the powerful application that Ohno developed might not work in fundamentally different production environments.
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It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.