Quotes about Failure
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
- John Perkins
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
- DA Carson
It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
- Luis Palau
I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.
- Joyce Meyer
I am the servant of all great individuals and, alas, of all failures, as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.
- Sean Covey
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.
- Seth Godin
As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure
- Barack Obama
As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure—and a failure on my part to put those who worked under me in a position to succeed.
- Barack Obama
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Trust—or the lack of it—is at the root of success or failure in relationships and in the bottom-line results of business, industry, education, and government.
- Stephen Covey
Eventually, if there isn't deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationship failure will replace short-term success.
- Stephen Covey