Quotes About Failure

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Failure will happen, and failure is an opportunity to build resilience, to practice forgiveness of self and of others, and to gain wisdom.

This book aims to systematically overcome all of the above failure points, step-by-step.

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

You will think it failed for Reason 1, but it failed for Reasons 1 through 5. And so the next business you start will fail for Reason 2, and then for 3 and so on.

Radz? sobie z odrzuceniem przez wytrwa?e d??enie, a nie przez poszukiwanie mo?liwo?ci gdzie indziej. Moja maksyma to s?owa Samuela Becketta, mojego osobistego idola: »Nieustannie próbuj. Nieustannie przegrywaj. To niewa?ne. Próbuj jeszcze raz. I jeszcze raz przegrywaj. Ale lepiej«. To nie do wiary, ile mo?na osi?gn??, d???c do niemo?liwego z odwag?, ponosz?c pora?ki, ale coraz mniejsze.

Most of your startups will fail, so the successes need to make up for losses.

First, you could define failing simply as having a losing outcome, like losing a hand. But one of the lessons poker teaches you is that this is an unproductive way to define failure because you can win a hand by making very poor decisions and lose a hand while making very good decisions.

Poker has taught me to disconnect failure from outcomes. Just because I lose doesn't mean I failed, and just because I won doesn't mean I succeeded—not when you define success and failure around making good decisions that will win in the long run.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

I look at every failure as a learning experience and try to spend time with my failures. I stew on them for a while until I pick out some nugget from them that I can take forward.

Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas.

I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty

There are no radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas.

There is nothing more powerful than failure to reveal to you what you are truly capable of.

In the end, a lack of focus is usually just fear: fear that whatever project I'm attempting will go nowhere or fail miserably.

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Failure is not necessarily durable. Remember that the things that they fire you for when you are young are the same things that they give lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE,

Be willing to fail or succeed on who you really are. Don't ever try to be anything else. What you are is good enough for whatever it is you're doing.

So the goal isn't to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.

Note that criticism is not failure. If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.