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Quotes About Failure

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi
All non-Christian systems of thought begin, proceed, and end in intellectual and practical failure. Thus God has made all non-Christian religions and philosophies foolish and futile.
~ Unknown
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Cada vez mais eu acho que não se deve julgar o bom Deus a partir deste mundo daqui, pois este é um estudo seu que não deu certo.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.
~ Virginie Despentes
Why are certain people determined to fuck up their lives while for others it seems so easy to do things the way they are supposed to be done?
~ Virginie Despentes
for systems belonging to the singular part of the stability boundary a small change of the parameters is more likely to send the system into the unstable region than into the stable region. This is a manifestation of a general principle stating that all good things (e.g. stability) are more fragile than bad things. It seems that in good situations a number of requirements must hold simultaneously, while to call a situation bad even one failure suffices.
~ Unknown
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
~ Voltaire
even the finest of plans can fail when they're poorly instantiated.
~ Unknown
Vì th?t b?i không ph?i là m?t l?a ch?n n?u thành công là v?n ?? c?a n? l?c. - Jakob ??n Maya -
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
~ W. Clement Stone
You may be inspired to desirable action to fulfill your good intentions, but you may lack the necessary knowledge, or you may neglect to use the required skills if you have them, and thus you may fail to develop new habit patterns.
~ W. Clement Stone
decisiones no seguidas de acciones no sirven para nada. El fracaso puede serle útil. No se deje encerrar dentro de muros mentales. Encauce sus pensamientos, controle sus emociones, ordene su destino. 1 UN NIÑO EMPIEZA LA BÚSQUEDA Yo tenía seis años y estaba asustado.
~ W. Clement Stone
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
~ W. Clement Stone
four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.
~ W. Clement Stone
Decisions without actions are worthless Failure can be good for you Don't let mental walls block you in Direct your thoughts, control your emotions, ordain your destiny
~ W. Clement Stone
As long as management is quick to take credit for a firm's successes but equally swift to blame its workers for its failures, no surefire remedy for low productivity can be expected in American manufacturing and service industries.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
~ W. Edwards Deming
In life the loser's score is always zero.
~ W. H. Auden
Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales?
~ W. H. Auden
In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
~ W. H. Auden
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.
~ W.H. Auden