Quotes About Failure

Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success.

Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure...

G. W. Smith had failed Robert E. Lee's test for command in battle, and from that verdict there was no appeal.

the essential fault lay with the Confederacy's failure to have produced a single good map of the approaches to its own capital.

And what of failure?" He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances.

Someone has said that the difference between a successful person and a failure is that the successful person got up the last time he or she was knocked down. That

THE OPPORTUNITIES missed by the United States on the way to September 2001 extended well beyond the failure to exploit fully an alliance with Massoud. Indifference, lassitude, blindness, paralysis, and commercial greed too often shaped American foreign policy in Afghanistan and South Asia during the 1990s.

Yet the failure to solve the riddle of I.S.I. and to stop its covert interference in Afghanistan became, ultimately, the greatest strategic failure of the American war. —

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

from cosmology to biology, it is becoming increasingly clear that science's failure to explain matters at the most fundamental level is at least in part due to an institutional prohibition on intelligent design as one of the explanatory options.

I have always regarded "atheism" in the true sense (that is, anti-theism, not simply anti-clericalism) as a moral and/or epistemic failure--perhaps a prudishness if not absence of the imagination, which when threatened can morph into bigotry toward that which one simply fails to understand. The neologism "theophobia" would not be out of place.

The desire of the Holy Spirit to produce the life of love in us and our failure to allow the Spirit to do so has created the basis for the world's rejection of Christianity.

Eighty-five percent of small businesses in this country fail within the first two years. Eight-five percent! That's a whole lot of failure. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.

number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.

the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear

The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them—at least not until after repeated attempts at "muddling through" have failed.

A lack of clarity is food for failure."

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery."

As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a poorly run software project is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and hardly ever short enough.

a second is as good as an eon, if you suceed...and as good as forever if you fail

When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

You need to be good at failing to be successful.

Atari is a very sad story.

At the age of twenty, I failed to grasp the difference between guilt, which can almost always be atoned for, and grief, which can only be borne.