Quotes About Failure

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

Before you can implement radical change, you have to let go of the things that will destine your attempts for failure, and make letting go a vital part of your culture

We have a history of wanting our leaders to be taller than average. That's probably because in ancient times everyone thought that tall leaders could see farther. We still want leaders to see far enough to tell us which way to go. But many CEOs fail.

The late Ken Iverson, credited with originally leading Nucor down the path to constant change and innovation, frequently used a saying still invoked daily at the company: "Anything worth doing is worth failing at.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

El único éxito de verdad consiste en no morirse, en vivir para siempre, cosa que de momento no parece que esté a nuestro alcance. El éxito es una cosa realmente estupenda, pero la única realidad es el fracaso.

Research conducted at Stanford points to two very different ways people tell their identity story and the effect that can have on how we experience criticism, challenge, and failure. One identity story assumes our traits are "fixed": Whether we are capable or bumbling, lovable or difficult, smart or dull, we aren't going to change. Hard work and practice won't help; we are as we are. Feedback reveals "how we are," so there's a lot at stake.

Non sarò mica cascato su un uomo senza ambizioni? Vorrebbe dire essere ben sfortunati!

can pay off on our failures, and Molly's grin had burned the hope right out of me.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

Making it" in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to "fail" so that your life can have meaning.

As long as you are identified with the mind, you have an externally derived sense of self. That is to say, you get your sense of who you are from things that ultimately have nothing to do with who you are: your social role, possessions, external appearance, successes and failures, belief systems, and so on.

Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.

There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.

Ni el éxito ni el fracaso pueden cambiar el estado de tu Ser interno.

The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure.

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way.