684 private quotes tagged failure

“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”— Jeff Goodell

“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

“I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.”— Charles M. Schwab

“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

“If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.”— Robert H. Schuller

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”— John Burroughs

“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”— Francis Picabia

“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.”— Jules Renard

“The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.”— Mitch Daniels

“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

“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”— William Lloyd Garrison

“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”— P. J. O'Rourke

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”— James Russell Lowell

“In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.”— Harvey Fierstein

“The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.”— P. J. O'Rourke

“Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”— Gary Ryan Blair

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”— Zig Ziglar

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”— Louis E. Boone

“There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.”— Sean Lennon

“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”— James Allen

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”— Denis Waitley

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”— Jack Kerouac

“If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.”— Tom Hopkins

“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.”— Michael Korda