Failure Quotes - Page 21

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

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

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

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.