Quotes About Failure

This book has only modest goals: to remind us that success is only one of the outcomes of our ceaseless quest for invention; that failure can follow initial acceptance; that the bold dreams of market dominance may remain unrealized; and that even after generations of (sometimes intensifying) efforts, we may not be any closer to the commercial applications first envisaged decades ago. And what is true about the past is, despite recent claims to the contrary, likely to be repeated in the future.

In contrast to Soviet innovation failures, the post-1990 economic development of China is the best recent, and historically unequaled, example of mass-scale innovation based on rapid appropriation of a wide array of foreign inventions.

give it your best shot. And if you fail? What is it they say? "Try again. Fail better.

In Sam's rough mountain-man philosophy those persons who became the wards of sadness and melancholy had never summoned for use and trial more than a part of what they had in them, and so had failed themselves and their Creator.

We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.

We realized that life, even the worst life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrows, successes and failures, and there was no need to fear the failures more than the successes.

I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.

Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.

she'd let weakness in, and loss and regret, and those emotions had tainted her view of herself, but her love had run deep and been honest. Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.

My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

the stories of the supremely successful entrepreneurs obscure the forgotten millions of losers and nincompoops. The fabulous successes seem like proof of the power of passionate belief in oneself, our American faith in faith.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.

You know, Chuck, You're not always gonna swish. You gonna miss some. Heck, you gonna miss a lot. That's the way the rel world works. But you gotta grab the ball and keep shooting. You understand? I tell you what, though, you'll make a lot more than you miss if you're not always going for the flash and flair.

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan, six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, five-time MVP

If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.

For all its size and sophistication, even the American military was capable of little more than a lengthy string of elaborate failures.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

but God is the God of the unsuccessful—the God of those who have failed. Heaven is being filled with earth's broken lives, and there is no "bruised reed" (Isa. 42:3) that Christ cannot take and restore to a glorious place of blessing and beauty. He can take a life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it a harp whose music will be total praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory. J. R. Miller

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

If you have a will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure!

Religion, unlike faith, emphasized strict adherence to texts, and failure to abide by them was perceived as a moral failure.