Quotes About Failure

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

Losing isn't very fun.

It's not fun to lose.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

The first thing we agreed upon was that the first ingredient of relapse is the cold-water shock of success.

The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.

It's didn't take a genis tactician to see that failure was imminent, Alyss more powerful that Arch had supposed. He would have to focus on his contingency plan and let the Glass Eyes attack on Wonderland fizzle out--a circunstance mildly disapointing, but not worrisome. Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circunstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it. [...] It was hard to blame them, harder still to live with the need to blame them.

Do you believe in yourself and the things you want to do? Are you prepared for many setbacks and failures? Whatever your calling may be, each error, each failure is like a strike-out. Your greatest asset is the number of strike outs you have had since your last hit. The greater the number, the nearer you are to your next hit.

My great concern,' said Lincoln, "is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Thomas Edison had ten thousand failures before he invented the incandescent bulb. Edison made up his mind that each failure brought him that much closer to success.

When you try too hard and become overanxious, you look bad. You are bad. Yes, keep going, but don't be afraid to lose today. Today is not going to make or break you.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule," Idaho said. "Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Anything and anyone can fail, he said, but brave good friends help.

They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

Bons súditos devem sentir culpa. A culpa começa como uma sensação de fracasso. O bom autocrata fornece muitas oportunidades de fracasso para o seu povo.

Anything and anyone can fail," he said, "but brave good friends help.