Quotes About Failure

Mas talvez seja assim mesmo: todo homem tem que um dia descobrir a pólvora. Ou então não houve experiência. E seu fracasso? como se conciliar com o próprio fracasso? Bem, toda história de uma pessoa é a história de seu fracasso. Através do qual... Ele, aliás, não falhara totalmente.

How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

Those who live in fear of failure slowly but inevitably fail.

Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

If it feels like a mistake before you go in, don't go in. Even when working with a whole heart, you are bound to have the occasional failure, and sometimes the whole heart will be the reason: caring too much can make you try too hard, and what should have sung will merely simper. But to work with half a heart means failure every time, and the results will scream the place down.

history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Noël Coward's comment about the secret of success being the capacity to survive failure.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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In essence our failure was a vivid demonstration, which I have never forgotten, that theories, however plausible and "obviously" valid, can be destroyed totally by the obstinate facts of the real world. Davis had brought us an unbeatable scheme for raising cattle profitably. The cattle had a different scheme. No doubt my later deep skepticism of the a priorism of mainstream economics had some of its origins in this experience.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

If you want to find a child's weakness, failures, personal problems, or inadequacies, you'll discover them. If you look at a child through the filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgments through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you'll find the characteristics you expect.

the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Haste in every business brings failures.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Rafe shrugs. 'He is frightened of you, sir. You have outgrown him. You have gone beyond what any servant or subject should be.' It is the cardinal over again, he thinks. Wolsey was broken not for his failures, but for his successes; not for any error, but for grievances stored up, about how great he had become.

He who climbs higher than he should, falls lower than he would.

In the end, Dr Bhattacharya had said, the heart fails without warning.