failure Quotes

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's - that's a disgrace.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.