Quotes About Failure

And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten. Things went from bad to worse unchallenged. It was otherwise with the failure of the sleeping apparatus. That was a more serious stoppage.

Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail. --Bunny

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Some Church leaders have come up with ingenious explanations for the complete failure to find any evidence supporting the Book of Mormon. In a March 25, 1964, address, Fletcher B.Hammond said: `:.. The Gentiles have not yet received the Book of Mormon by faith... and until they do... it appears that empirical facts will not be allowed to come forth as evidence of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon... ."'S

Innovation can't happen without accepting the risk that it might fail.

Peter Marshall, former chaplain of the US Senate, said, "It is better to fail at a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

If I didn't fly, I wouldn't be killed or wounded or captured. I would be alive, but I would be in that netherworld of failures and cowards. I would be disgraced without family or friends or profession. It would be a lonely world, inhabited only by that loathsome individual looking back each morning from the mirror.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach the one way to get the goal he would reach.

Things we conceal from others are insecurities that we are ashamed to admit, feelings and impulses we consider to be anti-social or inconsistent with our self-image, memories of events where we failed or performed badly against our own standards, and, most important, reactions to other people that we judge would be impolite or hurtful to reveal to their face.

Thus the greatest and fatal flaw was the failure to draw on its intellectual capital

Thus the greatest and fatal flaw was the failure to draw on its intellectual capital. - Gordon Bell

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Mistakes and failure are not signs of weakness; instead they are opportunities for future success. Failure is a sign of a creative mind, of original thought and strength.

The mind-set that mistakes are poisonous often freezes us into inaction

mistakes are positive elements of quintessential thinking and failure is an important part of the foundation upon which to build success.

Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan