Quotes About Failure

The Maya created a vibrant and brilliant society that, in the end, failed to adjust to a changing environment and the needs of its people;

It's not enough to figure out how to do something. You must also analyze every possible path to failure. Only then can you be certain of success.

Alas, his efforts to create predictive AI ended in failure. The world is ruled by chaos, and human behavior is too complex.

Understanding how things fail is the most important component in solving engineering problems.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

He knew he was undisciplined, a fuckup with a gift.

The great do not always prevail.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

If you've lost, you've lost.

That's the depressing part of places like this. Guest houses run by broken-down gentlepeople. They're full of failures—of people who have never got anywhere and never will get anywhere, of people who—who have been defeated and broken by life, of people who are old and tired and finished.

Things never burn when you want them to, they got out. You'd probably have had to strike match after match.

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

The caught murderer is necessarily one of the failures. He is second-rate.

But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.' 'What is that?' ' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

He went slowly out of the boat house, unhappy and displeased with himself. He, Hurcule Poirot, had been summoned to prevent a murder and he had not prevented it. It had happened. What was even more humiliating was that he had no real ideas, even now, as to what has actually happened. It was ignominious. And tomorrow, he must return to London, defeated. His ego was seriously deflated. Even his mustache drooped.

Her heart certainly failed to beat - but what caused it to fail is the question.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Man's self-destructiveness and failure to attain a telos that cures dissatisfaction suggest a disjunction in his origins to which, theologically, the name "original sin" is applied.

Man may try, and try and try. He may fly to reach the sky! But despite his best efforts, when things don't happen... Man is confused and wonders, 'Why?'... Man breaks down and begins to Cry.

There is a factor unknown to man... That makes results fail, though he thinks he can. He tries his best with all his zest... But in the end, he fails the test.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

doesn't teach. Winning rewards. You can only really learn from failure. And in the end, after you have taken a prolonged physical and psychological beating that would destroy a lesser man or woman, you will understand that success is not the absence of failure, but rather the presence of not quitting when you do fail. To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.