Quotes About Failure

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

The Athenians had failed in the fifth century BCE; now it was to be the turn of the Spartans.

Si crees que no comprendo que he fracasado en mi vida… so crees que me parece justo que ustedes paguen por mis fracasos, te equivocas. Yo también lo quiero todo para ti. Si crees que no saldremos de este lugar a algo mejor, e equivocas. Estoy dispuesto a todo para asegurar tu porvenir.

El mañana en México suele ser un lugar donde se guardan los fragmentos de los deseos que se estrellaron contra la realidad. Es el cementerio de los proyectos fallidos.

Failing fast involves egoless work. Egoless programming. Egoless operating. Egoless analysis. To remove ego, structure projects as a team effort. No solo acts. No product is any one person's "baby." Otherwise, people can't criticize a product without criticizing the person. To fail fast and learn quickly, remove ego and make everything a team effort.

If you want to build a project that is perfect, you'll never succeed. You must allow failure, and people need to know it, so tell them.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

Kitsch is a sentimentalization of reality in response to cultural failure. The greater the failure, the more malignant the sentimentalization.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Still, at its heart the Rwandan story is the story of the failure of humanity to heed a call for help from an endangered people. The international community, of which the UN is only a symbol, failed to move beyond self-interest for the sake of Rwanda. While most nations agreed that something should be done they all had an excuses why they should not be the ones to do it. As a result, the UN was denied the political will and material mean to prevent the tragedy.

The artist's greatest creation began the night he washed his memory of his failures rubbed opium on his lips drank the wine that women offered him and lay down and wept.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

The most common leadership failure stems from trying to apply technical solutions to adaptive challenges.

Public sentiment is everything.13 With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

He however fails dismally to live by basic Christian values, and, sadly, his actions are antithetical to the tenets of the faith, if not an outright mockery.

Whatever your destination, you will be followed by your failings.

Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about Afghanistan, the public knows even less, and few care about policy failure when the effects are felt only in Afghanistan.

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.