Quotes About Failure

However the simple fact that they have been resounding failures in our century does give them a certain spiritual quality. For all we know, they may be-these crushed wretches-the saints of our age.

This failure to make contact with reality is, however, characteristic of almost all of America's "art." Any connection between American art and American nature is purely coincidental, but this is only because the nation as a whole has no contact with reality.

War remains the decisive human failure.

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall. I

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

The ugly structure Khrushchev had erected was "the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see.

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly!

Despite that effort, whoever held power, whether a city government or some private gathering of the locals, they generally failed to keep the community together. They failed because they lost trust. They lost trust because they lied. (San Francisco was a rare exception; its leaders told the truth, and the city responded heroically.) And they lied for the war effort, for the propaganda machine that Wilson had created.

Avery was attacking the most fundamental questions of immunology and, ultimately, genetics. From each failed experiment he learned, perhaps not much but something. And what he was learning went beyond how to fine-tune an experiment. What he was learning from his failures had large ramifications that applied to entire fields of knowledge. One could argue that none of Avery's experiments failed.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Failure is the price of excellence.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.