Quotes About Failure

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

no debemos permitir que los fracasos y las caídas del pasado cierren para siempre las puertas de la oportunidad de éxitos futuros.

el verdadero enemigo del éxito no es el fracaso, como muchas veces pensamos, sino el conformismo.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

It's peculiar, our nature to want to save others. During the war, you worked feverishly to save the children. Lilli was doing her best to save you, I was trying to save the men in my section, and , by the time it was over , we all failed. But Audrey, did we ? Because here you are, popping up out of nowhere, your box bringing with it a whispered feeling that you are here to prod ne forward. And so, perhaps, we are all saving each other after all

How melancholy a thing is success," he would later write. "Whilst failure inspires a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories 'are shadows, not substantial things.

I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.

Wright correctly diagnoses the failure of the New Quest (and its current heirs, such as the Jesus Seminar, Crossan and Burton L. Mack)" to fit Jesus' overall life and ministry into sufficiently historical contexts and the broader theological narratives of his day. Wright helpfully observes that the uniquely North American work of the Jesus Seminar members is so idiosyncratic that it is often not even taken seriously in other parts of the world (JVG 35 n. 23).

At twenty-five, Marion had already developed the philosophy to "take failure with my chin up and success, when it comes, in stride.

The failure of Aristotle to distinguish sharply between the worlds of experience and of mathematical thought resulted in his lack of clear recognition of a similar confusion in the paradoxes of Zeno.

We just didn't make it" to the airport.

Tell me about a failure in your life and tell me why it occurred." Does the applicant say he cannot think of one? If he can describe something he perceives as a failure, does he take responsibility for it or does he blame others (e.g., "I never graduated high school because those damned teachers didn't know how to motivate me")?

Threats betray the speaker by proving that he has failed to influence events in any other way. Most often they represent desperation, not intention.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

The fear of being fundamentally flawed brings with it a related fear. It's the fear that if you did make a full commitment to living in your Zone of Genius, you might fail. It's the belief that even your genius is flawed, and that if you expressed it in a big way, it wouldn't be good enough. This belief tells you to play it safe and stay small. That way, if you fail, at least you fail small.

When a bridge fails, the engineer who designed it is as good as dead.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

I failed her in life. But I won't fail her in death.

Mellencamp sat back. He had just left his meeting with Liz Sansborough, where he had failed to get the information he needed.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

Something was seriously wrong with Burnside. Either his mental apparatus wasn't functioning or he was grossly incompetent. Probably both.

I've heard it said your entire life flashes before your eyes as you die. Those words comfort those who have loved and been loved but torment those who have failed and been failed.