Quotes About Failure

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

We've found this relationship between social perfectionism and suicidality in all populations where we've done the work, including among the disadvantaged and the affluent." What's not yet known is why. "Our hypothesis is that social perfectionists are much more sensitive to signals of failure in the environment.

We are incapable: ever since Eve's crime, we've been born this way - outlaw failures, fucking and sinning with callous abandon as the planet we've been given withers around us.

Hij lachte over de mislukkingen die ik hem vertelde. Maar hij lachte mij niet uit. Nee, eerder lachte hij, zoals iemand lacht over fouten die hij zelf lang geleden, begaan heeft, met nog wel wat verdriet omdat hij gefaald heeft, maar ook voldoening omdat hij ze overwon, of van geen belang meer acht.

The kind of elitists I admire are those who ruthlessly seek out and encourage intelligence and who believe that competition—and, inevitably, some measure of failure—will do more for character than coddling ever can. My kind of elitist does not grade on a curve and is willing to flunk the whole class.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, nor our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain.') Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

No pain, no gain," they say. But many change efforts fail because the people affected experience only the pain. The company may gain, but for employees it seems to be all loss. Trying to talk them out of their feelings will get you nowhere.

I'm not afraid of failure, I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.It is not the effort nor the failure tires.The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

But my favorite story of Munger's flamboyant failures in diplomacy comes from Buffett, who shared it with Pabrai and Guy Spier over lunch in 2008. Munger, who has a glass eye, visited the Department of Motor Vehicles, where a hapless bureaucrat made the unfortunate error of asking him, "Do you still have just one good eye?" Munger replied, "No. I've grown a new one.

One of the nice things about video games as a metaphor is that you die all the time," he explained. "You play, you play, you play, you die. You play, you play, you die." It's a harmless way of learning "to accept constant loss and defeat over and over again. And it doesn't bother you. You just keep doing it. And that's what investing is.

Many companies enter businesses planning to capture only a small percentage of the market. Such plans are not conservative; they are extremely dangerous. They are strategies for failure. The only good plans and the only good marketing programs are those aimed at dominance, backed by sufficient resources to achieve it, and executed with precision.

Of course, in philosophy, you settle one bill only by neglecting another, a strategy which must eventually fail since all of them fall due at the same time.

One day they came and knocked the cornices from the watch repair and pasted campaign posters on the windows. Torn across, by now, by boys, they urge you still to vote for half an orange beblazoned man who as a whole one failed two years ago to win at his election. Everywhere, in this manner, the past speaks, and it mostly speaks of failure.

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.