Quotes about failure

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Barack Obama

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

Barack Obama

We fail our children if we say, ‘Don’t do as I do, but do as I say’.

Zig Ziglar

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone’s afraid to fail.

Brené Brown

A fatal penalty awaits those who always look on the dark side of everything, who are always predicting evil and failure, who see only the seamy, disagreeable side of life. They draw upon themselves what they see, what they look for.

Orison Swett Marden

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

George Bernard Shaw

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Laozi