Quotes About Failure

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

No actor has 100 percent track record.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

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.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

He had always thought of himself as a successful man, although nothing he had ever done had turned out successfully.

Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of the trust he had placed in me.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. – Norman Vincent Peale

Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. I'm not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.