Famous Quotes & Sayings

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Linda McMahon

We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.

We did everything possible to prevent this happening but we have failed miserably.

Jane Wagner

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Steve Fossett

There is a risk in the takeoff. There is a risk during the flight of running out of fuel or other mechanical failure in an experimental aircraft.

There are more failures than there are successes.

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

The only time we saw visible spoilage at the walls was when we failed to get a good seal between the sidewall and top sheets of film.

But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.

But there seems to be the impression that without Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic in custody, the tribunal has somehow failed in its mission.

But all, the world's coarse thumb / And finger failed to plumb, / So passed in making up the main account.

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Obviously, if we have a series of tests that are deemed to be failures we couldn't say that this was ready to deploy.

Rita Dove

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Doug Liman

If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing,

John Montgomery

If anything fails, they fail the whole thing, and it gets pushed back to you.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

If all else fails we will still have the lakes, the land, the horses and the fish, and there are a lot of fish.

I fail to understand what the real reason is for doing this.

I have always voted every time I could get to the polls. I failed in that regard.

I felt like I had failed it, like I let it down.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

John Montgomery

I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them.

Catherine Ponder

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

Carroll Quigley

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Charles Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Every now and then we're going to fail.

Bonnie Hunt

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.