Famous Quotes
- Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
- Cory Lidle on Failure
- Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
- Bob Woodward on Failure
- No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
- Alfred Adler on Failure
- No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
- Greil Marcus on Failure
- No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
- Robert W. Service on Failure
- No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
- Napoleon Hill on Failure
- No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
- William Feather on Failure
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- Henry Miller on Failure
- None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
- Morris West on Failure
- Not failure, but low aim is sin.
- Benjamin E. Mays on Failure
- Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
- James Russell Lowell on Failure
- Nothing fails like failure.
- Margaret Drabble on Failure
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge on Failure
- Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
- Margaret Drabble on Failure
- Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
- S. I. Hayakawa on Failure
- Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
- John McCarthy on Failure
- Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
- Maxwell Maltz on Failure
- Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
- Andre Malraux on Failure
- Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
- Rickey Henderson on Failure
- Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- One failure is worth seven and a half successes.
- Eli Khamarov on Failure
- One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
- Melissa Rosenberg on Failure
- One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
- Tammy Bruce on Failure
- One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
- Thomas Sowell on Failure
- One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- John W. Gardner on Failure
- One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
- Abraham Maslow on Failure
- Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
- Elbert Hubbard on Failure
- Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
- Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
- Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
- Luc De Clapiers on Failure
- Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
- Adam Schiff on Failure
- Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
- Steve Forbes on Failure
- Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
- Roland Gift on Failure
- Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
- Pete Sessions on Failure
- Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
- Richard V. Allen on Failure
- Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
- Kenneth L. Pike on Failure
- Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
- Matt Blunt on Failure
- People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
- Don Johnson on Failure
- People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
- Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
- Edward Eggleston on Failure
- Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
- Jim Clyburn on Failure
- Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
- Theodor Herzl on Failure
- Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart on Failure
- Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
- Tommy Lasorda on Failure
- Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
- Brian Ferneyhough on Failure
- Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
- Jimmy Connors on Failure
- Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Zig Ziglar on Failure
- Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
- Roger Von Oech on Failure
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- Steve Jobs on Failure
- Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas A. Edison on Failure
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