Quotes About Failure

And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men, not men circumstances.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

Bringing Leviathan under control will be the heart of global politics because of a confluence of three forces: failure, competition, and opportunity. The West has to change because it is going broke. The emerging world needs to reform to keep forging ahead. There is a global contest, but one based on promise as much as fear: Government can be done better.

There is always time for failure.

It is not just our failures or limitations that hold us back, it is our failure to recognise them.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

A guiding coalition made up only of managers—even superb managers who are wonderful people—will cause major change efforts to fail.

The typical goal that binds individuals together on guiding change coalitions is a commitment to excellence, a real desire to make their organizations perform to the very highest levels possible. Reengineering, acquisitions, and cultural change efforts often fail because that desire is missing. Instead, one finds people committed to their own departments, divisions, friends, or careers.

In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.

Banks: "We should anticipate that at any point in time our U.S. banking system could suffer a blow from which it could not bounce back and which would result in government takeover…In whatever way it may start, if it starts, a series of major bank failures would totally alter the nation as we now know it.

The Arab Spring has been a dismal failure. All indications are that what comes next will be significantly worse than what existed before, in Tunisia and everywhere else, and the traumatic events up to now have already caused untold havoc and violence and made the lives of innocent ordinary people even more miserable than they already were. Socially and economically, the Arab Spring has put back countries like Tunisia, Yemen, and Syria by decades.

Forget trying to find an old bone or two, seek the damned Holy Grail! You may fail, probably will based on historical record, but you'll fail grandly!

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

What makes all these traps so dangerous is their invisibility. Because most are hard-wired into our thinking process, we fail to recognize them— even when we're falling right into them.

Anything that can possibly go wrong, does

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

Free your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure.

The iterative cycle provides opportunities to convert weakness into strength by using the knowledge derived from failure to shorten the gap between practitioners and their goals.

Finally, at the praiseworthy end of Edmondson's spectrum, we find intelligent failures. These are hypothesis tests and exploratory tests that open up potentials, and treat failure as an opportunity to learn rather than something to be avoided.

That's how games work—we fail our way toward understanding through play.

Successful leaders need more than good intentions; they need to transform hopes and plans into results. Noble failure may be poetic but it is also unsatisfying.