Quotes About Failure

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely

Doubt leads to thought, thought leads to failure. Now

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you The subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure

Not only did failure oppress me, but I could no longer deny the pattern revealing itself before me.

It had happened all wrong.

Shem is opaque at the best of times, but I know he still feels confused. The role of divine kingship has been thrust upon him and I think part of him resents it." "As his vizier, he considers it your job to answer the questions in his heart." Daniel nodded with a sad smile. "That's true. I keep failing him.

Cities, you see, are like humankind. They are born, become great and fulfil their potential, or else, in the case of failures, remain as straggling haphazard creations throughout their life span. Then, they die. They are dynamic things, the cities. If they did not live, their people would perish; the relationship between human and city soul is crucial to the well-being of both.

A central failure of the "mind as a computational system" theory is that computations, per se, are devoid of meaning.

If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.

Knowledge advances as much through negative results and thwarted hypotheses as it does by theories that prove to be correct.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

To feel wrecked, you didn't need accumulated badness. One mess-up was all it took.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.