684 private quotes tagged failure

“Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.” — Roland Gift

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“With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.” — Gordon Moore

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“The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.” — Millicent Fawcett

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“I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.” — Rodney Alexander

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“I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.” — Alice Foote MacDougall

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“I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.” — Tiki Barber

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“At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.” — Robert Farrar Capon

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“I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.” — George Edmund Street

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“And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.” — Tom A. Watson

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“Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.” — Michael Crawford

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“Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.” — Michael Crawford

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“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” — Burt Rutan

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“We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.” — Shane Leslie

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“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

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“After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.” — Kurt Student

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“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.” — Simon Hoggart

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“Never permit failure to become a habit.” — William Frederick Book

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“Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.” — Ron Dellums

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“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.” — Montgomery Clift

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“I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.” — Elie Tahari

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“Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.” — E. Franklin Frazier

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“There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.” — Chuck Barris

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“Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.” — Dale Dauten

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“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.” — Edward Dowden

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“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

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