Famous Quotes
- We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
- Timothy Geithner on Failure
- We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
- Rick Perry on Failure
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles on Failure
- We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
- William Lloyd Garrison on Failure
- We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
- Arianna Huffington on Failure
- We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
- Charles Kettering on Failure
- We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
- Rupert Everett on Failure
- We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
- Whoopi Goldberg on Failure
- Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.
- Michael Chertoff on Failure
- Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
- Charles Schumer on Failure
- Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
- Richard Branson on Failure
- Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
- Peter Guber on Failure
- What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
- Rahm Emanuel on Failure
- What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
- Malcolm Mclaren on Failure
- What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
- Sonia Johnson on Failure
- What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
- Donn Pearce on Failure
- When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
- William Kingdon Clifford on Failure
- When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,'out of there.'
- Elizabeth Pena on Failure
- When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
- Maude Adams on Failure
- When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw on Failure
- When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
- Naveen Jain on Failure
- When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
- Brett Ratner on Failure
- Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
- Steven Spielberg on Failure
- While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
- Bryant H. McGill on Failure
- Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
- John Mayer on Failure
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- J. K. Rowling on Failure
- Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
- Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
- Ernest Hemingway on Failure
- Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
- Wilma Rudolph on Failure
- With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
- Gordon Moore on Failure
- With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
- Benjamin Carson on Failure
- With failure, you just try again.
- Judd Nelson on Failure
- With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
- Christian Marclay on Failure
- With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
- Justin Sane on Failure
- Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
- Camille Paglia on Failure
- Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
- Glenn Beck on Failure
- Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart on Failure
- Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart on Failure
- Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
- Paul Twitchell on Failure
- You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
- John Poindexter on Failure
- You always pass failure on your way to success.
- Mickey Rooney on Failure
- You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
- E. O. Wilson on Failure
- You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
- Johnny Cash on Failure
- You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
- Thomas John Watson, Sr. on Failure
- You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
- Dave Van Ronk on Failure
- You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
- George Cukor on Failure
- You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
- Zig Ziglar on Failure
- You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
- You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
- Gabrielle Union on Failure
- You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
- Casey Stengel on Failure
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