Quotes About Failure

Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.

Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.

The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.

Dropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is.

We cannot travel the roads of success without ever crossing the streets of failures

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

To think that some lousy contractors could have brought down the greatest nation in history!

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love."1

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love.

For lack of anything better... it is the failure of others that makes for the strength of the fühers. When there's no worthwhile banner, you start to march behind worthless ones.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

Startups don't fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.