Failure Quotes

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

Roger Daltrey

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

James A. Baldwin

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Karen Armstrong

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

Paul Getty

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.

Tony Richardson

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

Michael Ramsey

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Chris Hedges

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

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Andrew Vachss

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Lev Yilmaz

With failure, you just try again.

Judd Nelson

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Walter Brunell

Failure is an event, never a person.

William D. Brown

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Carl Sandburg