Failure Quotes

Faucet Failure’ was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn’t overthink anything, and I wanted to just have fun with the song.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.

We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

Am I more afraid of failing or succeeding?

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures – joined with the similar failures of others – can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

Failures often become art. And art can never fail.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.