Quotes About Failure

Life would be a failure if it were not a success."

My success was hijacked by failure, opportunities are the clues to find it.

No matter how big you are, you will trip over yourself.

The failure of wisdom is to believe in self-esteem.

There are people who disappear in failure and reappear in success."

All my failures contributed to my success.

The failure of success is not distrusting self-esteem.

There are people who disappear when you fail and reappear when you succeed."

There is no other way, to reach success, you have to go through failure.

Those who use every opportunity, make even failure contribute to success.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

The consequence for not adequately training your Huns is their failure to accomplish that which is expected of them.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180 000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

Ya?am sanat?n?n ödevi, ba?ar?l? bir hayata katk?da bulunmak ve insan? mutlu etmek de?il midir? Evet, k?smen öyledir ama ba?ar?s?z ve mutsuz olmak da vard?r insna hayat?nda. En az?ndan basitçe "def edemeyece?imiz" için vard?r. Ba?ar? zorunluluk de?ildir, ba?ar?s?zl?k hep bir ihtimaldir.

Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

Because of the halo effect, we get the causal relationship backward: we are prone to believe that the firm fails because its CEO is rigid, when the truth is that the CEO appears to be rigid because the firm is failing. This is how illusions of understanding are born.

This start-up looks as if it could not fail, but the base rate of success in the industry is extremely low. How do we know this case is different?

All too often a company afflicted by sunk costs drives into the blizzard, throwing good money after bad rather than accepting the humiliation of closing the account of a costly failure.

Indeed, the average guess by people who were asked about Michigan is lower than the guesses of a similar group who were asked about the murder rate in Detroit. Blame for a failure to think of Detroit can be laid on both System 1 and System 2. Whether the city comes to mind when the state is mentioned depends in part on the automatic function of memory.

In the standard rational model of economics, people take risks because the odds are favorable—they accept some probability of a costly failure because the probability of success is sufficient.

assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed