Failure Quotes

"I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure."

Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian Philosopher

Failure, Help

21

"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, American Politician

Failure, Difference, Man

6

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

Failure, Time, Opportunity

5

"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

Failure, Desire

4

"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Learning, Success, Opportunity

4

"With failure, you just try again."

Judd Nelson, American Actor

Failure,

4

"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."

Jim McMahon, American Athlete

Failure, Risk

4

"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."

Johann Most, German Revolutionary

Failure, Cause, Freedom

2

"Failure is always an option."

Adam Savage, American Entertainer

Failure,

2

"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?"

Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier

Failure, Consequences, Succeed

2

"Not failure, but low aim is sin."

Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator

Failure, Sin

2

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."

H. Stanley Judd, American Author

Failure, Challenge, Energy, Trying

2

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense."

John Hersey, American Writer

Failure, Vision, Children, Defense

1

"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Failure, Strength, Difference, First

1

"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, American Public Servant

Failure, Objectives

1

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."

Errol Flynn, Australian Actor

Failure, Man

1

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

George Edward Woodberry, American Critic

Failure, Defeat

1

"Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Journey, Life, Fear

1

"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

Failure, Students, Teachers

1

"Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Success, Wisdom, Learning

1

"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."

Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

Failure, Film, Television, Theater

1

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

Rick Pitino, American Athlete

Failure, Coaching, Mistakes

1

"Failure is a word unknown to me."

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician

Failure, Word

1

"It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone."

Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss Scientist

Failure, Students

1

"If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation."

Ruben Hinojosa, American Politician

Failure, English, Law, Nation

1

"My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

Failure, Talk

1

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Failure, Being, Enemies, First

1

"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Failure, Film

1

"I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid."

Amy Sedaris, American Actress

Failure, First

1

"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, American Athlete

Failure, Challenge

1

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Failure, Risk, Succeed

1

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

Failure,

1

"The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia."

Hideki Tojo, Japanese Soldier

Failure, America, Prejudice, Reason

1

"We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself."

Dennis Ross, American Diplomat

Failure, Iraq, Years

1

"But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock."

Don Nickles, American Politician

Failure, Buying

1

"In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Politician

Failure, Iraq, Succeed

1

"Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Teacher, Fear, Growth

1

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

Failure, Church, First

"The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again."

Ben Stiller, American Comedian

Failure, Acting, Career, Writing

"Percy grunted. 'Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo's powers."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Failure, Power, Truth, Regret, Happiness

"My reputation grows with every failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Failure, Reputation

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

Failure, Being

"It is always better to fail than not to participate."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Participation, Better

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

Jerry Falwell, American Clergyman

Failure, Christian, Being

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman

Failure,

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

Gloria Swanson, American Actress

Failure, Old, Years

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him."

Elmer G. Letterman, American Salesman

Failure, Man, May

"I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure."

21

"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."

6

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

5

"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

4

"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."

4

"With failure, you just try again."

4

"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."

4

"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."

2

"Failure is always an option."

2

"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?"

2

"Not failure, but low aim is sin."

2

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."

2

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense."

1

"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

1

"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."

1

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."

1

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

1

"Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path."

1

"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."

1

"Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success."

1

"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."

1

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

1

"Failure is a word unknown to me."

1

"It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone."

1

"If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation."

1

"My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about."

1

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

1

"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."

1

"I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid."

1

"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."

1

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

1

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

1

"The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia."

1

"We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself."

1

"But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock."

1

"In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option."

1

"Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy."

1

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

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"The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again."

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"Failure has gone to his head."