Quotes About Failure

Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

Despite receiving over 800 patents in his lifetime, and quite literally inventing the twentieth century, he died penniless and alone.

Die Psychologie ist schon deshalb zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil wir den absurden Versuch unternehmen, unser Gehirn mit unserem Gehirn verstehen zu wollen.

Lo último que nos dejó la breve etapa de Rathenau como sabor de boca fue la confirmación de lo que ya el periodo 1918/1919 nos había enseñado: nada de lo que hace la izquierda funciona.

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on. When banks can pocket the upside while spreading the cost of their failures, failure is almost certain.

I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweetness and appeal. Resentment, the empress says, is like a snake that nests in the bosom, and it can turn and strike her who harbors it.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

But I'd course, isn't it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall?

I don't like to lose - at anything… yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how He teaches us.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

God uses failure to bring us to brokenness, to force us back to a posture of dependence.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." It

The key to failure is the repetition of a belief in failure. Negative self-talk is the repetition of a belief in failure.

You will become what you think about most; your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming—what you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

SOLOMON KUGEL His performance, of late, had been subpar. Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.

It took real talent to be that inept.

I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.