Quotes About Failure

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Life is full of horrible mistakes.

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Mr. Mutwa and the children were both distressed by their experiences. But they also spoke spontaneously of receiving powerful communications from the alien beings, especially through their huge black eyes, about the failure of our species to take proper care of the earth.

When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.

The younger generation has been a force for change in part because it refuses to accept the status quo as a given. Young people are motivated by what the literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky once called the 'energy of delusion.' If we knew the true magnitude of a task beforehand, we wouldn't undertake it in the first place. Thus, the older we get, and the more experience of challenge and failure that we endure, the less likely we are to attempt the impossible.

The surface causes of Adams's anxieties are not difficult to discern. Every activist knew the penalty for treason. Every congressman knew that prison, perhaps death, would be his reward if the American rebellion failed.

not bad isn't good enough, not bad can get you killed.

Being a teenager has to be the toughest time for almost everyone. Especially if there's anything you perceive as wrong in your world. I felt put-upon, unworthy. Behind the eight ball. Divorce was an immense failure to me.

Delays and laziness are the two great gulfs in which multitudes of souls are drowned and perish.

success is largely a matter of Avoiding the Most Likely Ways to Fail[d. ], and since every Bug advances us significantly along that path, we may hearken back to the advice given in the Preface and urge the following Policy: CHERISH YOUR BUGS. STUDY THEM But

SYSTEMS TEND TO MALFUNCTION CONSPICUOUSLY JUST AFTER THEIR GREATEST TRIUMPH. Fully

WHEN BIG SYSTEMS FAIL, THE FAILURE IS OFTEN BIG

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

The wise leader does not make a show of holiness or pass out grades for good performance. That would create a climate of success and failure. Competition and jealousy follow.

On losing a player due to academics—"Our team traveled 25,000 miles, then he fails geography.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

The ability to overcome failure—to live through it and move on—is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure—if we don't have the skills to survive it—we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.

why are we remembered for our failures? Why do defeats and retreats mean more than victories?

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.