Quotes About Failure

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for. Lost it though. Got it back. Lost it. Got another - the story is somewhat repetitious.

it comes out of the fact that during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.

Like every other state-of-the-art conference room AV system in the history of the world, it failed to work on the first go and so it was necessary to summon someone who understood how it worked; and like all such persons he could not be found.

Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.

So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant?

can't say I mourned my failure overmuch, as it meant I'd get a free trip to New Orleans out of it, and that would rock be most excellent. I DROVE BACK to the office late in the day to find Tristan collapsed on the couch from exhaustion.

He strove to integrate us," said Eve, "but he, or we, failed. We are ineluctably children of the Beta Gods.

But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it.

Joint stock corporations are wonderful inventions that have given us many excellent goods and services. They are good at many things. Admitting failure is not one of them. Hell, they can't even admit minor shortcomings.

desperate run for help to save the remnant of his failed

He remained in engineering and did more and more poorly at it until the middle of his senior year

Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.