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Quotes About Failure

The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city's success.
~ Edward L. Glaeser
Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.
~ Edward Lewis Wallant
Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world, three of them in Europe (Russia, Turkey and Hungary).
~ Edward Luce
Design cannot rescue failed content.
~ Edward R. Tufte
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information .
~ Edward R. Tufte
Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward on the self, or outward towards others, dreadful destruction results.
~ Edward T. Hall
When stupid wins, everyone loses.
~ Edward Weiss
Success does not mean the absence of failures. It means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
~ Edwin C. Bliss
If instead it reacted it meant that precedents had failed me and I was wrong; and the only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.
~ Edwin Lefevre
There is no sense in marking up the price to a very high level if you cannot induce the public to take it off your hands later. Whenever inexperienced manipulators try to unload at the top and fail, old-timers look mighty wise and tell you that you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.
~ Edwin Lefevre
At all events, I knew that all bull manipulation was foredoomed to failure in that bear market.
~ Edwin Lefevre
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
La vida tiene varias dimensiones pero estamos condenados a elegir e ignorar las demás. Estamos condenados a sentir que, por bien que estemos, nuestra elección fue incorrecta. Estamos condenados a vivir con alguien mientras deseamos día tras día a otros. Estamos condenados a mentir, a dar besos fríos, a seguir dando golpes en la oscuridad fingiendo una pasión que se fue hace años. ¿Por qué lo hacemos? El miedo a aceptar el fracaso podría ser una de las razones.
~ Efraim Medina Reyes
A risk hosts two results, first, holds a success, and second, experience in failure.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Approaching and achieving what one wants through a third party is a pure risk of failure, whether sooner or later; it also shows a lack of confidence and ability. In this context, one can figure out that the United Nations and its Security Council indeed fall under such third-party exactly.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Changing the figures and even the system; however, the failure still exists as an issue if the mindset remains unchanged.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Failure is such a feeling and psychological attack that causes fear and stress.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Failure, in whatever objective, always brings alternative opportunity and hope; otherwise, life cannot breathe.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
For the peace of mind and life, religion is such a spiritual guide and coach that teaches the right way and drives to show the right path; alas, human fails to follow that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Generally, accurate decisions on accurate time determine the expected outcome accurately; otherwise, failure and sorry become destiny.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Honeybees naturally, focus on storing nectar of flowers and fruits for the honey; however, people who realize the value of honey, they benefit from that. Similarly, the writers write, and the readers read to acquire knowledge and vision from that, for its qualification; otherwise, failure becomes inevitable.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Not every opportunity is relevant and applicable since opportunities that fail to match, with one's thoughts, character, and nature, become consistently unsuitable and worthless.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Responsibility neither plays and manipulates as politically, nor it turns postponed for another time; as a fact, action on time displays the excellence of responsibility; otherwise, it fails and loses credibility accordingly, as its context.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Shaking hands with love, and passion, aspires perfumed feeling; however, shaking hands with expectations, distresses by the failure of that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal