Famous Quotes About failure

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.