Quotes About Failure

Death entered the medical miracle of the twentieth century already camouflaged. But in scientifically advanced nations, it now takes place in hospitals or nursing homes, out of view, a medical failure rather than a natural process. And, to 'protect' our children, rarely does it make an appearance within their beautifully illustrated picture books.

entrepreneurship has meant either setting up a corner grocery shop or some other sort of modest local business or, more rarely, a total pie-in-the-sky crapshoot around an idea that is more likely to bring ruination than riches.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

If you've never failed…," said Orville. "…you've never tried anything new

Or as Thomas Edison put it, "Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

We put you to the test; we failed.

El tiempo de las soluciones fáciles se acabó, porque las soluciones fáciles han fallado.

The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

We have seen a few examples of teams trying to have one person serve as both scrum master and product owner. In all the cases we have seen, this has failed.

The Standish Group's 2002 "Chaos" study of software project success and failure rates states that in a typical software system, 45% of features are never used. Only 7% of features are always used, and another 13% are used often.

I have such a lowered bar of expectation, and they managed to crawl underneath it. ~ Jon Stewart

Failing is not losing. Failing is growing. Quitting because you failed is losing.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Intelligent design is simply not a scientific theory. Science is based on the working hypothesis that things are naturally explainable. This may or may not be true. But the only way to find out is to make every possible effort to explain things naturally. Only if one fails—assuming failure can ever be definitely established—would one be entitled to state that what one is studying is not naturally explainable.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

The grandiose person is never really free. First, because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail with far-reaching consequences.

Every revolution arises from the failure of a particular state in a particular moment. In Spain the Republican government crumbled in the wake of Franco's military revolt. Power was lying in the street, and the anarchist movement, the most powerful force among the workers and peasants, took it.

Having failed the Civil Service entrance examinations, he had become – she recalled – a clerk at the London office of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank on 31 Lombard Street, at the age of eighteen – one of his 'fellow employees' there had been the young P. G. Wodehouse

La sabiduría interior de nuestro más sagrado yo nos lega la sabiduría de la pérdida y el fracaso para que nuestra conciencia se fortalezca.