Quotes about failure
failure problem
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. Steve Martin
failure contemplating ifs
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. Simon Cowell
failure america world
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud
failure errors
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
failure progress
Most progress is most failure. Robert Browning
failure succeed lows
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
failure mean acceptance
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph. Sydney J. Harris
failure criticism lapses
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag
failure luck superstitions
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
failure glory undertakings
In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure. Lee Iacocca
failure night typewriters
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams
failure sleep men
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. Simone Weil
failure determined-to-succeed way
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
failure blessing compassion
Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat. Sri Chinmoy
failure opportunity two
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. Roger von Oech
failure government trying
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet. Rupert Murdoch
failure thinking too-much
Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on? Ray Romano
failure failing ifs
If you must fail ... fail spectacularly! Ransom Riggs
failure government giving
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. Thomas Jefferson
failure men thinking
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. Robert W. Service
failure blessing civil-war
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. Robert E. Lee
failure ideas trying
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. Richard P. Feynman
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure self effort
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
failure giving individual
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. Voltaire
failure crime i-have-made-mistakes
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is. Walter Wriston
failure failing mishaps
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one Walter Savage Landor
failure thinking care
Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested. William J. H. Boetcker
failure trying learning-from-mistakes
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. Woody Allen
failure errors trials
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth. William Whewell
failure steps success-failure
Every failure is a step to success.
failure writing people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. William McFee