Failure Quotes

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

John Hersey

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

Joshua Harris

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

John H. Johnson

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, ...

James Howard Kunstler

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Jennifer Lawrence

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Jerome Lawrence

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Johann Most

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

John C. Maxwell

Without failure there is no achievement.

John C. Maxwell

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

John Mayer

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

John Mica

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Jon Meacham

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Jose Mujica

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru