Quotes About Failure

These men, committed as they were to freedom—liberty as they understood it, and viewing themselves as the guardians of it—were therefore also committed capitalists. But their scientific colleagues were increasingly finding evidence that capitalism was failing in a crucial respect: it was failing to protect the natural environment upon which all life—free or not—ultimately depends.

their scientific colleagues were increasingly finding evidence that capitalism was failing in a crucial respect: it was failing to protect the natural environment upon which all life—free or not—ultimately depends.

When scientists discovered the limits of planetary sinks, they also discovered market failure. The toxic effects of DDT, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer, and climate change were serious problems for which markets did not provide a spontaneous remedy.

Accepting that by-products of industrial civilization were irreparably damaging the global environment was to accept the reality of market failure. It was to acknowledge the limits of free market capitalism.

Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism to solve any of the world's problems and its unenviable success in inventing many new ones.

I just put my head down and hold onto this crumbling fucking family with my bare hands. And I'm failing at it. I really am. I'm failing so bad and I don't know how to stop.

no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate

From triumph to failure is only one step.

The inevitable fate of large groups is to perish because of lack of unity.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Winning isnt everything, but losing is nothing.

Winning isnt everything, but losin is nothing.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail." – Benjamin Franklin