Top 462 Failure Quotes

Translation is the art of failure.

Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Satya Nadella

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Gloria Swanson

The hippy movement was a failure.

The hippy movement was a failure.

Joe Strummer

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

Mike Pompeo

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

George W. Bush

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Alan Rickman

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Amy Tan

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