failure Quotes

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.