Quotes About Failure

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Kids with parents who are less concerned about their flunking and more concerned about giving their kids an opportunity to think about flunking develop kids who think and rarely flunk. Their parents aren't going to worry about it, so they'd better.

Because people tend to regard loss, wrong, bad, and failure as the same thing, it is little wonder that loss is a dirty word in our vocabulary.

The lesson here is: Taking either success or failure personally means, by definition, that your ego has become involved and you are in jeopardy of incurring losses due to psychological factors.

trading is not about discovering a great strategy for making money but rather a matter of learning how to lose.

the rise sets up the fall; the winning sets up the losing

People fail for the most part because they shoot themselves in the foot. If you go for a long time without shooting yourself in the foot, other people start calling you a genius.

Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.—UNKNOWN

Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the success as a personal reflection rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.

Success can be built upon repeated failues when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally.

Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world.

There is nothing more bitter than an opportunist who miscalculates.

I had this real hardass for a tutorial in grad school,' Jeannine finally said. 'And this one time when I told him that maybe my project hadn't panned out because it had been too ambitious, he said that he'd always thought that the moral of the Icarus story was not 'Don't try to fly too high.' He said he thought it was 'Do a better job on the wings.

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

When we honor His laws of love, we live our married lives in peace and safety. When we don't, disappointment and failure are sure to result.

T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us."

What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

One of the most common blocks to effective directed prayer is the fear of failure.