Failure Quote by Winston Churchill

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

— Winston Churchill

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

— John C. Maxwell

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

— Jose Saramago

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

— Henry Rollins

If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such…

— Rob Long

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

— Frederick Lenz

The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

— Rob Long

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

— Douglas Adams

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of…

— Alyson Noel