Quotes About Failure

No one is too great to fall.

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

And I knew patience was the dividing line between success and failure.

poorly. Then I fell

Hoshan I experienced profound spiritual awareness," he said slowly. "It began with a devastating recognition of my failures and shortcomings. Only when all my pride and arrogance had been stripped away did I experience divine compassion so infinite that it could forgive all my weaknesses and fill me with light.

You couldn't hit the ball with a steam iron today

I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say Ive always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.

I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I mean Blood.

The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it's building the wrong thing.

premature design commitment is a design failure mode

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter! Try again. Fail again. Fail better! Understand? Good. Play.

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

the nature of the world (and by extension, one's place in it) and the nature of human reasoning (including when it fails, as it so often does).

Si tienes una fuerte aversión al fracaso, es posible que te sientas desgraciado si no consigues el ascenso, como al tratar de evitar la pobreza o la enfermedad. Pero, si tu deseo va encaminado correctamente a hacer el mejor trabajo posible, no puedes

Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do.

TEKELI-LI. Tekeli-li, Tekeli-li. I got that from Pym. I got that from Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, specifically. Pym that is maddening, Pym that is brilliance, Pym whose failures entice instead of repel. Pym that flows and ignites and Pym that becomes so entrenched it stagnates for hundreds of words at a time. A book that at points makes no sense, gets wrong both history and science, and yet stumbles into an emotional truth greater than both.

A good PowerPoint show turned a failed project into a success in the eyes of top management. As often is the case, senior executives had no knowledge or no real interest in what was really going on.