Quotes About Failure

those who soar the highest, fall the hardest. Watch out that you don't take a tumble.

There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more even-handedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.34

There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more evenhandedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

and the poor slob soon became a lame duck.

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

I don't know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.

Failure is an event, never a person.

This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don't get back up.

We followed him to the cut bank of the river and watched as the underside of his truck suddenly became visible. The jump didn't get very far and, as anticipated, the wheels and most of the front of the Toyota sank into the soft mud of the Powder River effectively ending the vehicular portion of George's getaway.

damaged as to be of no further use. These losses were due

On the other hand, in a famous "genius test" conducted at Stanford by Lewis Terman and colleagues from the 1920s into the 1990s, a cohort of 1,500 youngsters with IQs over 135 ultimately failed to produce a single genius.48

As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said in 2017, "Optimists tend to be successful, and pessimists tend to be right. . . . If you think that something's going to be terrible and it's going to fail, then you're going to look for the data points that prove you right. And you'll find them. That's what pessimists do. . . . But if you think that something is possible, then you're going to try to find a way to make it work.

Edison said, "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."35

The real is the imaginative failed.

I can't let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there's anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it's that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.

flusher handle and all he managed to do was fall back and flush the stupid toilet.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year.