Quotes About Failure

One of the failures of Democracy is that the common vote guarantees a common leader who then leads us to a common apathetic predictability!

if you want to find out who your friends are go to a madhouse or jail. and if you want to find out where love is not be a perpetual loser.

Temen tanto al fracaso que fracasan

Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. Neither line of argument is useful, though. What

Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure to find solutions.

It's hard to kill yourself by taking Tylenol. You die from liver failure, which takes a long time...

Yet Catchings would in just ten years very nearly destroy the firm, proving once again that articulate optimists encouraged by early successes and armed with financial leverage can become hugely destructive.

and all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.

Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.

Quit puzzling over it. The worst you can do is fail to kill a turkey and there's not a hunter in the world hasn't done that. Go on.

One mantra of Silicon Valley, the technological innovation capital of the world, is "fail faster to succeed sooner.

Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City during the 1930s, used to say, I don't fail often. But when I do, it's a beaut!

You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

AFTER WE DO THE WASHING-UP, I GET TO SPEND THE REST OF the evening reading FAQs on cat maintenance on the web. It takes about half an hour to come to the unwelcome realization that they're almost as complex as home-brew gaming PCs, and have even more failure modes. (When your gaming PC malfunctions it doesn't stealthily dump core in your shoes.)

Was failure to make tenure track justification for an honor killing?

you can't learn from a fatal mistake.

there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.

I wasn't there, I wasn't there." The final failure, in the father's eyes. "Nor was God," Rutledge said, and sat with the grieving man for another quarter of an hour, until he was calmer.

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Un coeur fier peut survivre à un échec général parce qu'un tel échec ne blesse pas son orgueil. C'est plus difficile et plus amer quand un homme échoue tout seul.

The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious way. In other words, we play politics with language, and in so doing conceal the reality and the complexity of our situation from ourselves and from those foolish enough to put their trust in us.

Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.

Un corazón orgulloso puede sobrevivir a un fracaso general, porque ese fracaso no afecta a su orgullo.