Quotes for Failure

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

John Sherman Cooper

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Herbert Samuel

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

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Jamie Moyer

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Tim Harford

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

Mario Teguh

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Ed Case

The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

Michael T. Flynn

That's me: success and failure don't affect me.

Nana Patekar

I had never in my corporate life had a failure.

John DeLorean

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

James Nesbitt

I had to find the courage to share not only myself but my art with the world. I faced fear, and I went for it. I wasn't a failure, and I'm very proud of myself.

Alyssa Edwards

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

Betty White

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Dolly Parton

As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.

Paul Allen

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Sarah McLachlan

I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water.

Juergen Teller

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Gregory Benford

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Lisa Marie Presley