Quotes About Failure

Rejections are thin 'cause they really have nothing to say other than, Sorry, dude, you're screwed. acceptances are thick 'cause they have lots of stuff to say like, Welcome, dude, you're not screwed, we want you.

But too often we dread being stuck. Especially our students and young people. We believe that if we are stuck we have failed. On the contrary, we should welcome getting stuck. We should embrace getting stuck. That's when discovery begins.

failing to prevent earth's salvation is your only triumph...and yet that failure overshadows every past success!

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Plan for success; prepare for failure. And the universe doesn't care either way.

However, as we would know if failed businessmen could sell their biographies as well as the successful ones, blind faith is more commonly a recipe for disaster than for triumph.

Brothers out here flexing their talk, setting themselves up for failures; just to prove a worthless point about what they are really doing in the streets. -MillYentei

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Attainment of desirable states brings joy, failure to do so becomes sorrow.

At the root of all human tragedy is human folly.

What went wrong was their rejection of basic bedrock principles of investing—that high returns are leg-shackled to high risks; that you should never put all your eggs in one basket; that you should never invest in something you cannot understand. They failed to see that no one should hand all their money over to anyone simply because they trust him, or because someone they admire trusts him.

doubting their faith, and those just hanging on is that church or Christianity has failed them, wounded them, betrayed them, or maybe just bored them—and they do not want to

Community does involve psychology stuff — which, in my opinion, is why roughly 90 percent of new communities fail. Forming a community is deeply psychological. Emotional pain and hidden expectations exert a powerful pull on people, and community founders are no exception. Put a group of people in a community visioning session, and you have dozens of different needs and expectations, known and unknown, ricocheting invisibly around the room.

Instead of questioning what is wrong with your child, we encourage you to consider that something may be fundamentally wrong with the diagnostic and education systems that are failing your child

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

THE SECOND MAJOR THEME running through the Tea Party movement is the call for personal responsibility. The founding documents built institutions that allowed for individuals to chase their dreams and be responsible for their own successes and failures. Tea Partiers value equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. For us, it is all about the rights of the individual over the collective.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Don't think you are a great person just because you are a star in a given sport and win all the time because the next time, you may lose—and the time after that.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Den größten Fehler, den man im Leben machen kann, ist, immer Angst zu haben, einen Fehler zu machen.

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.