Quotes about failure
failure positive-experiences discouraged
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. John Keats
failure success-and-failure highways
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success...
failure mean science
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working. Joseph Murray
failure missing mark
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly? Ouida
failure taste excuse
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Oscar Wilde
failure design risk
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich
failure noble degrees
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. Martin Farquhar Tupper
failure desire facts
Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel. Mark McCormack
failure vocabulary challenges
Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. Mary Lou Retton
failure secret judgment
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it. Mark Twain
failure done failing
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty. Neal A. Maxwell
failure adore
We women adore failures. They lean on us.
failure thinking cost
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about. Louis Kronenberger
failure car scratches
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same. Michael Dolan
failure successful people
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. Michael Korda
failure sea blame
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice. Publilius Syrus
failure loss
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
failure men want
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. Pope Paul VI
failure lessons-to-be-learned might
If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned. Oprah Winfrey
failure growth built
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
failure long contentment
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Oliver Goldsmith
failure creativity originality
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original. Ken Robinson
failure character suffering
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
failure emotional consistency
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
failure ideas bears
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. Isak Dinesen
failure
All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Iris Murdoch
failure mean success-and-failure
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. Katherine Mansfield
failure laughing importance
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
failure facts failing
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. Ken Kesey
failure july tragedy
The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime. Kenneth Lay
failure melancholy
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone. Christopher Fowler
failures learn
Acknowledge that you learn just as much, if not more, from your failures as you do from your successes.
failure succeed
You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively. Michael Eisner