Failure Quotes
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
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The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
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'What happened?''Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?' She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
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I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
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My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
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Representative Baker is an embarrassment. He is wrong on the issue of enforceability, ... His response to our settlement is explained by his failure to grasp the issues at hand and his failure to do anything to protect small investors.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
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Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
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Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
