Failure Quotes
What failure costs, and what it sometimes forces.
This page gathers failure quotes on a wide range of subjects: a legal misdemeanor for not filing a form, the long odds behind a legendary TV pilot season, and a blunt wartime statement that failure simply wasn't an option. One entry reflects on a major historical intelligence failure. See Fear for what often sits just behind failure.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things...
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Fear Quotes
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.
If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is...
Life Quotes
I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.
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.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
Me Quotes
Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love,...
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
