Failure Quotes
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
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Without failure there is no achievement.
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I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
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Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.
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No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
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If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
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There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
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Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
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I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
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When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.
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Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.
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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
