All Quotes

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

Failure is a part of success.
‐‐ Hank Aaron

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
‐‐ John H. Johnson

Failure is a word unknown to me.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Failure is always an option.
‐‐ Adam Savage

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
‐‐ James Dyson

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
‐‐ David Bergen

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
‐‐ Billy Childish

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
‐‐ Rick Pitino

Failure is impossible.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
‐‐ Tim Harford

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
‐‐ John Dewey

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
‐‐ Daniel Webster

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
‐‐ John Wooden

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
‐‐ Ron Dellums

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
‐‐ John Wooden

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
‐‐ Jules Renard

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
‐‐ Herbert Kaufman

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
‐‐ Henry Ford

Failure is success if we learn from it.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
‐‐ Truman Capote

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

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

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
‐‐ Sanjay Kumar

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
‐‐ Charlie Chaplin

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
‐‐ Natalie Goldberg

Failure is your invention.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

Failure's a natural part of life.
‐‐ John Malkovich

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.
‐‐ Tim Harford

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
‐‐ Billy Dee Williams

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Failure? Scared to death of it.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
‐‐ Jack Lemmon

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
‐‐ Denis Waitley