Quotes About Failure

When delivery fails, efforts to figure out why tend to focus exclusively on delivery. That's understandable, but it's a mistake, because the root cause of why delivery fails often lies outside delivery, in forecasting, years before delivery was even begun.

But when things go wrong and people get desperate, the obvious is often overlooked, and it's assumed that if delivery fails, the problem must lie with delivery, when in fact it lies with forecasting.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Success, in the words of Winston Churchill, "consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." The greatest barriers to success so far have been the fear of failure and the failure to learn from mistakes.

On est comme des ordinateurs qu'on programme et déprogramme à volonté. Nous nous conditionnons même à nos réussites et à nos échecs futurs.

My costume was a failure; it did not fit me. They had always jeered at me for my thinness and in this dress I looked like an English teapot.

more tax breaks for the very rich is only one symptom of an economic and political system that is grotesquely failing the average American.

We make too many wrong mistakes.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Four generals Set our for Iran. With the first one, war did not agree. The second never won a victory. For the third the weather never was right. For the fourth the men would never fight. Four generals And not a single man!

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Oscar of Between initially subtitled "A Story of Failures." Several writer-friends recoiled, "No one will want to read it with a title like that." The longer she lives, the more interested Oscar becomes in failure – what we consider it to be. How so often it's the unnamed force that shapes the story.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

They'd also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed.

including one entitled Criminal Investigative Failures. Having read the Chronicle article and seen the KXAN-TV broadcast, Rossmo

Those who failed in protecting prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, were not the right-wingers and the religious Zionists and the settlers who justifiably decried his government's policies — it was the security services, which not only failed to protect him, but also used irresponsible manipulations, which haven't been fully exposed to this day, to encourage the murderer to carry out his plan.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed before them, but rather the failure of both our great political parties to place those challenges honestly and courageously before the people, and to trust the willingness of the people to do the things that really need to be done.

Our current policy in Iraq is a failure. We are past the point of an open-ended commitment. We are past the point of adding more troops. We are past the point of vague policy prescriptions. It is not an answer just to stay. Nor is it an answer -- though it may become a necessity -- just to go, with no concern for what follows. The fundamental question we must answer is whether, as we begin to leave Iraq, there are still concrete steps we can take to avoid leaving chaos behind.

A dish was a failure because it hadn't been cooked with love. A dish was a success because the love was so obvious. If you're cooking with love, every plate is a unique event—you never allow yourself to forget that a person is waiting to eat it: your food, made with your hands, arranged with your fingers, tasted with your tongue.