Quotes for Failure

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Oprah Winfrey

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Henry Petroski

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

Henry Petroski

Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.

Yuval Noah Harari

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

Roger Scruton

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Tony Robbins

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Javier Bardem

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

Ry Cooder

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.

Paul Kalanithi

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

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Nigel Farage

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

Paul Craig Roberts

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Michele Bachmann

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

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

Coretta Scott King

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

Marc Randolph

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

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

John Ortberg

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

Peter Carey