Quotes About Failure

This is already backfiring," Winter muttered.

You are such a failure at being eerie! I'll have you know I won 'most mesmerizing fireball' at the Elflympiad! He would have followed me if you hadn't been so annoying! Now he'll never drown in a creepy swamp!

organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.

No matter how good an individual on the team might be feeling about his or her situation, if the team loses, everyone loses.

And although Jack could hear the master's shoes crunching on the deck some inches above his head, he could not possibly divine the particular emotional disturbance and the sickening dread of exposure that filled the poor man's loving heart. But he knew very well that his tight, self-contained world was hopelessly out of tune and he was haunted by the depressing sentiment of failure – of not having succeeded in what he had set out to do.

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

perfection is an earthly illusion and is used as an excuse not to complete workplace or kingdom-purpose projects. For many, it's the fear of failure in disguise.

pointy-haired boss doesn't mind if his company gets their ass kicked, so long as no one can prove it's his fault.

First, if we fail to meet the challenge of climate change, with catastrophic results—which seems all too likely—it won't be the result of an innocent failure to understand what was at stake. It will, instead, be a disaster brought on by corruption, willful ignorance, conspiracy theorizing, and intimidation.

Hollow slogans like Making your country great again only lead to one result, collapse.

the single difference between success and failure, between gain and loss, has boiled down to two words: applied knowledge.

Keep your life as simple and efficient as possible. How? Learn with each stumble or failure. Failure is only an opportunity to excel. The perception in which your mind chooses to visualize your challenges in life will enable your successes or enhance your failures.

I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

Did she consent? But words failed her. This willful assent they were suddenly asking her to express was the agreement to surrender herself, to say yes in advance to everything to which she most assuredly wanted to say yes but to which her body said no...

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.

Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: "I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.