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Quotes About Failure

The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength, Kathryn," he insisted. "Absolute certainty might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up. You will learn no more once you have decided you know. Yes, it's harder to live with the certainty that you don't know, that you will surely fail again. But it is essential if you intend to take command of that fleet." Janeway
~ Kirsten Beyer
She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.
~ Kirsten Miller
Most painful of all, she mourned the time she could have spent with her daughter. She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.
~ Kirsten Miller
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
~ Kirstie Alley
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
~ Knute Rockne
If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
~ Kobe Bryant
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
~ Kobe Bryant
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
~ Koichi Tanaka
Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been cut to the bone, stabbed in the back? Have you ever given someone your whole heart only to find out they used your heart to beat you with it? Have you ever laid down your life for someone? Have you ever served with reckless abandonment and in return got back a list of things that you failed to do?
~ Kris Vallotton
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
~ Carl Jung
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
~ Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
~ Carl Sagan
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
~ Carl Sandburg
Their failure is just another expression of their helplessness
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Fare scienza è una successione di delusioni, cose che non funzionano, idee sbagliate, esperimenti che non riescono, conti che non tornano. di tanto in tanto punteggiata da momenti di gioia.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Cuando el monstruo fracasa, no le queda sino desaparecer.
~ Carlos García Gual
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
~ Carlos Ghosn
People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!
~ Carmelo Anthony
Inspiring communicators and the best TED presenters stick to one of three types of stories. The first are personal stories that relate directly to the theme of the conversation or presentation; second are stories about other people who have learned a lesson the audience can relate to; third are stories involving the success or failure of products or brands.
~ Carmine Gallo
to create the full-blown security apparatus to suppress what will eventually be the bulk of a nation's population and to find a continuous substantial flow of foreign capital to offset the inordinate expense—means that it is destined to fail.
~ Carol Anderson
you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What
~ Carol Dweck
You obliterate my central sun and i hate and fear you for it . . . every moment with you is fraught with my anxiety of failure to be who you want me to be, to say what you want me to say . . . You don't remember you have a daughter. You never see my pain. You see yourself.
~ Carol Lee
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
~ Carol Moseley Braun