Quotes About Failure

They would say my nerve had failed me. They would laugh in my face! I had a certain standing. I was the daughter of a murderess.

NOVEMBER 1 DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED by the difficulty of keeping your focus on Me. I know that your heart's desire is to be aware of My Presence continually. This is a lofty goal; you aim toward it but never fully achieve it in this life. Don't let feelings of failure weigh you down. Instead, try to see yourself as I see you. First of all, I am delighted by your deep desire to walk closely with Me through your life.

The Palestinian leadership failed disastrously by not coming up with an alternative to the U.S.-Israeli position at Camp David and subsequent negotiations through the end of the Clinton presidency. It also failed by not explaining what was wrong with the terms being negotiated at Camp David, and how the whole process, from Oslo on, represented the subordination of international law to Israeli demands.

maybe moths don't think lightbulbs are the moon. Maybe they found out how far away the moon is, and simply chose suicide instead of failure. Wouldn't you?

They have failed to understand the timelessness of Babylon, that Babylon is always with us. One careful reading of the major chapters about Babylon is all one needs to form a Babylonian hermeneutic that provides discernment of Babylon in America and in its churches. Yet repeated failed readings of Revelation have today led to a failure to discern Babylon.

The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This 'American sense' looked upon failure as a 'moral sieve' that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.

By 19oo, anybody could end up "a `Nobody,"' plodding down the "many paths leading to the Land of `Nowhere."' Failure had become what it remains in the new millennium: the most damning incarnation of the connection between achievement and personal identity. "I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

The mystery for why some people you know succeed or fail in life is how courageous they are in pulling people aside and how effective they are in those private conversations we never see.

Often, QA has the best insight into design oversights and potential failure cases that others will overlook.

Taking responsibility, even for failures, is always a growth opportunity.

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.[31] Without at least imagining the missing dimensions to the stories, our view of how to make things happen in the present is seriously compromised.

Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.

When people are allowed to fail or make mistakes without taking responsibility for them, politics are inevitable. Without accountability for people's commitments, few will trust others.

It's design, not functionality, that determines if people will succeed or fail in fulfilling the promises products have made to them.

And the more you do to force it in, the less of what you wanted to acquire in the first place remains. The vast majority of acquisitions fail for this reason.

To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give yoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning or losing. Just DO.

dancing with death when he whispers in your ear is a very erotic moment in a man's life and it may not have happened yet for me but he's sent his assistants many times to try me out. we've all been failures much to death's disappointment

Failure makes things interesting. Before failure, the path to victory seems so clear. So simple. Maybe not easy, but simple. After failure, we get creative. Failure makes us more aware of our weaknesses. It clarifies our obstacles. It reminds us to keep our heads in the game to the very end because success is never a guarantee—no matter how close it seems. And it reminds us how serious we're going to have to be if we're going to finish first.

Instead of being smothered by your failures, debilitated by them, defeated by them, if you can learn from them, you have a superpower. True winners have a healthy appetite for failure. Because without failure, success means nothing.

I think I can stand up, though!" He demonstrated the questionable optimism of this pronouncement by falling on his face.