Quotes About Failure

it took seven years to make John a hero and just seven days to make him a failure.

You were wrong for years, right for a moment, losing small, winning big, so vastly more successful than the other way

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Nobody accepts randomness in his own success, only in his failure.

Things designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse).

Too much success is the enemy (think of the punishment meted out on the rich and famous); too much failure is demoralizing. I would like the option of having neither.

No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.

It is not your skills that are to blame.

investors are led to overestimate their chances of success.

American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment.

Los emprendedores son unos héroes en nuestra sociedad. Fracasan por el resto de nosotros

But no problem; the people you meet when riding high are also those you meet when riding low, and I saw the fellow getting some (more subtle) abuse from the same accountant before he got fired, as he eventually ran out of luck. You are free—but only as free as your last trade. As we saw with Ahiqar's wild ass, freedom is never free.

people do not realize that success consists mainly in avoiding losses, not in trying to derive profits.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

If, in spite of his best efforts, a man fails in a particular undertaking, he does not experience the same emotion of pride that he would feel if he had succeeded; but, if he is rational, his self-esteem is unaffected and unimpaired. His self-esteem is not—or should not be—dependent on particular successes or failures, since these are not necessarily in a man's direct, volitional control and/or not in his exclusive control.

This is one of the reasons why attempts at relationships so often fail—not because the vision of passionate or romantic love is intrinsically irrational, but because the self-esteem needed to support it is absent.

I can fulfill the expectations of others and yet fail my own; I can win every honor and yet feel I have accomplished nothing;

You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

The experiment, so far as its original projectors were concerned, proved, long ago, a failure; first lapsing into Fourierism, and dying, as it well deserved, for this infidelity to its own higher spirit. Where

But, to tell you my private mind, Signor Giovanni, he should receive little credit for such instances of success - they being probably the work of chance - but should be held strictly accountable for his failures, which may justly be considered his own work.

The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadow scope of time, and, living once for all eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.

Some, like Heisenberg, were already putting together the framework of their own defense, conveniently justifying the failure of their efforts as a calculated strategy to keep Hitler from obtaining the bomb.

shouldn't the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure?

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?