Quotes about failure
failure far futility gone peace points quest violence
The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far -- but that it has not gone far enough. And it points not to the failure of negotiations -- but to the futility of violence and force. Bill Clinton
failure full signal
The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty, Edmund Stoiber
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure science malaria
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. Ronald Ross
failure food weight-loss
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields
failure succeed transformation
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up. Paul Valery
failure adversity darkness
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. Pliny the Elder
failure failing harm
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm. Plutarch
failure procrastination done
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Rita Mae Brown
failure risk kind
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. Richard Marcinko
failure victory possibility
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Robert H. Schuller
failure screw-ups life-is
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. Sarah Dessen
failure men misery
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Samuel Johnson
failure past design
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
failure difficult-situations done
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can. Robert Baden-Powell
failure men presidential
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
failure artist way
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself. Tracey Emin
failure england failing
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live? Rudyard Kipling
failure failing ashamed
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
failure defeat discouragement
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
failure errors rockets
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. Wernher von Braun
failure adversity men
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler
failure no-failure
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
failure memorable messing-up
Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up. Wayne Dyer
failure trying-different-things trying-new-things
The greatest failure is the failure to try. William Arthur Ward
failure delay detours
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
failure dying buzz
There's a buzz to failing and not dying. Stephen Colbert
failure innovation sides
Success is on the far side of failure. Thomas J. Watson
failure next-week today
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster. Hal Borland
failure recovery trying
Formula for failure: Try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope
failure kind worst
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. James Agate
failure thinking lines
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. James A. Baldwin
failure thinking battle
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Jean-Paul Sartre