Quotes About Failure

Hard work is far more valuable than talent. The world is littered with brilliant, talented, lazy nobodies. Almost the entire workforce of Starbucks is populated by a bunch of geniuses that "nobody gets, man." If you have talent and you don't have the stones to get up every day and perfect that talent, accept criticism, look at yourself honestly, suck on the hard lozenge of failure, and try to constantly and consistently improve, well then, you don't have shit.

Stark and egregious errors, the truly epic failures, forge character. They burnish your edges and make you the person you are.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

It should also be noted that the first encounter may be a failure, if loveplay is not known. The man must be more careful than the woman in the act of copulation, since he does not know how to restrain himself, while the woman is always hesitant. The responsibility lies with both.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Sort of like the pilot saying, "We're gonna make Chicago on time, but only if we jettison all our baggage!" I've seen product managers sacrifice not only design, but testing, function, features, integration, documentation, and reality. Most product managers that I have worked with would rather ship a failure on time than risk going late.

Homo logicus are driven by an irresistible desire to understand how things work. By contrast, Homo sapiens have a strong desire for success. Programmers also want to succeed, but they will frequently accept failure as the price to pay for understanding.

I cried for my granny and my mum and every working-class woman who had sacrificed like them and been denied proper closure and emotional balm because they had slipped through the system, no, had been failed by the system, and hadn't the means to do so. I

it's only a failure who would kill!

Failing to plan mean you plan to fail.

To win is to win, and to lose is to lose

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

When you are living by faith through the darkness of circumstances, other people become aware of the radiance and sweetness of your life, and they are truly blessed. When you refuse to admit your failure, God cannot be revealed through you to others, and they may be lost for eternity. Oh, the sin of unbelief has desperate consequences, not only for yourself, but for others!

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

acute existence failure.

Failure is a personal thing but it's better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.

Failure is a very personal thing and everybody goes through it very personally.

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.