Quotes About Failure

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side.

The drive to be successful and the fear of failure are, like the head and tail of a coin, inseparably linked.

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.

Her alanda as?l yenilgi unutmakt?r, özellikle de sizi neyin gebertmiÅŸ olduÄŸunu unutmak,insanlar?n ne derece h?rt olduklar?n? asla anlayamadan gebermektir.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess.

La tyrannie sans risque, sans peine... Ce sont les ratés les plus rances qui décrètent le goût du jour !... Qui ne sait rien foutre, loupe toutes ses entreprises possède encore un merveilleux recours : Critique !... Trouvaille inouïe des temps modernes, plus aucun compte jamais à rendre. Critique ne relève que de son propre culot, de ses sales petites gardiens des plus fienteux égouts... Tout en ombres, baves, toxines, immondices, curées...

She loves you, Mom," Caroline said, telling the truth. "I know, dear. But I wish I'd done more earlier. That I hadn't missed my chance." The words hung in the air, reminding Caroline of the failures of love. People tried so hard, but they often missed the most important connections.

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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming, said Marilla. The trouble with you, Anne, is that you'll expect to teach those children everything and reform all their faults right off, and if you can't you'll think you've failed.

by the time I reached Nice, I felt my spirits fail. My youthful impetuousness had long since been destroyed: ennui had sapped my strength.

The manager: Do you understand? Leading Man: I'm hanged if I do. The Manager: Neither do I. But let's get on with it. It's sure to be a glorious failure anyway.

What Emily rejects is not religion, but coercion. Signalling from behind her public failure is an intelligence collected enough to combat bullies who want to take over her mind and hardwire into it a formulaic 'tale'—the 'tale' of all fundamentalist faiths that close down the right to freedom of judgement.

Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

To fail to confront when confrontation is required for the nurture of spiritual growth represents a failure to love equally as does thoughtless criticism or condemnation and other forms of active deprivation of caring.

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.