Quotes About Failure

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If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

Sometimes the world's most brilliant ideas don't work. Doesn't make them any less insightful.

You cannot stay in the self-actualized mode if you're always worried about failure.

A poor performer has a strong tendency to ignore his problem.

While in most instances the decision to accept or reject defective material at a given inspection point is an economic one, one should never let substandard material proceed when its defects could cause a complete failure—a reliability problem—for our customer.

But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

I have seen far too many people who upon recognizing today's gap try very hard to determine what decision has to be made to close it. But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !

if you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in Standing still

when agile projects fail, it's often because of cultural and philosophical differences between waterfall and agile methodologies.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.

The way a person thinks is the key to everything that follows -- good or bad, success or failure. A person's thinking -- the way he thinks -- is the foundation structure upon which a life is built. Thinking guides decisions. Thinking -- how a person thinks -- determines every choice.

Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

David, we are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

Grace is not an exemption from failure. It is, however, what makes it possible to sustain hope in the midst of failure.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

simply a lesson in things not to repeat. Leaders can much more easily live with the prospects of having tried and failed than not having tried at all. Leaders fear missed opportunity more than they fear an unsuccessful enterprise.

An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

individual does. Here's the difference: Eventually a leader's lust for progress overwhelms his reluctance to take risks. In other words, failure to move things forward is the type of failure most feared by the leader. For the leader, failure is defined in terms of missed opportunities rather than failed enterprises.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.