Failure Quotes

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be...

Barry Ritholtz

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Brett Ratner

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Burt Rutan

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plan...

Ben Shapiro

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

Ben Shapiro

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Ben Stiller

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

Bo Schembechler

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over...

Beau Willimon

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Bob Woodward

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Bob Woodward

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Carol Moseley Braun

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley

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

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they e...

Cory Booker

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

Charles Duhigg

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Craig Ferguson

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

Chad Hurley

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering