Quotes About Failure

La mentalidad fija se enfoca en el resultado. Si fracasas –o si no eres el mejor–, todo se ha desperdiciado

Con seguridad las personas de mentalidad fija han leído libros que aseguran que el éxito tiene que ver con ser la mejor versión de ti mismo, no con ser mejor que los demás; que el fracaso es una oportunidad, no una condena, o que el esfuerzo es la llave del éxito. Pero no pueden ponerlo en práctica porque su mentalidad básica –la creencia en rasgos fijos–

As a New York Times article points out, failure has been transformed from an action (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure).

Everything I was going through boiled down to fear. Fear of trying and failing. . . . If you go to an audition and don't really try, if you're not really prepared, if you didn't work as hard as you could have and you don't win, you have an excuse. . . . Nothing is harder than saying, 'I gave it my all and it wasn't good enough.

Time after time, as I and my fellow generals saw that our strategies weren't working, we failed to reconsider our basic assumptions. We failed to question our flawed understanding of our foe or ourselves . . . In the end, all the courage and skill in the world could not overcome ignorance and arrogance. As a general, I got it wrong. And I did so in company with my peers.

The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children's accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure. It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can't afford to be wrong.

If a heart could fail in its pumping, a lung in its breathing, then why not a brain in its thinking, rendering the world forever askew, like a television with bad reception? And couldn't a brain fail as arbitrarily as any one of these other parts, without regard to the blessing and cosseting that, everyone was so eager to remind you, disentitled you from unhappiness?

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

Indeed, for the denizens of Versailles, clothes and other seemingly superficial emblems remained concrete measures of their success . . . or failure. In this rarefied world, the surface was the substance. And the appearance of power, legible in everything from a slashed sleeve to a patent coat, was the real thing.

She thought the world was a good idea that had failed.

Henry Castellanos wrote in New Orleans as It Was that; 'No spirits wander through its wide halls...but in lieu thereof there rests a curse...that follows everyone who has ever attempted to make it a permanent habitation...every venture has proved a ruinous failure.' It is indeed true that from the 183os until present, many of the institutions and tenants that tried to occupy the "Haunted House" have experienced financial insolvency or bad luck.

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

As Winston Churchill said, 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.

Can't anybody here play this game?

Most games are lost, not won.

I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Most ball games are lost, not won.