Quotes About Failure

From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

I've been blissfully ignorant about the result of my films and don't get swayed by success or failure.

Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.

Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.

I'll be the first one to admit I had some bad at-bats. But I've had periods where I've struck out four times and then struck out four times again. It only takes one swing to get out of it.

I had just come off my third consecutive failed television series. I had sworn off doing TV for a while. I was going to go to New York, sublet an apartment, and find my soul again. Before I got on the plane, my agent sent me the script for 'Psych.' I read it on the plane and realised it had a lot of potential.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I spent a long time on a big studio sitcom, 'Baddiel's Syndrome,' for Sky, and got no audience.

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

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The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.

Resorting to a psychological explanation is less innocent than it appears. In refusing the mimetic interpretation, in looking for the failure of Peter in purely individual causes, we attempt to demonstrate, unconsciously of course, that in Peter's place we would have responded differently; we would not have denied Jesus. Jesus reproaches the Pharisees for an older version of the same ploy when he sees them build tombs for the prophets that their fathers killed.

Cuando te levantes por la mañana, da las gracias por la luz matinal, por tu vida y por tu fuerza. Da gracias por tus alimentos y por la alegría de vivir. Si no ves razón para dar las gracias, el fallo está en ti." TECUMSEH (1768–1813) LÍDER NATIVO AMERICANO SHAWNEE La

Your biggest enemy, as I can attest from having worked with thousands of people just like you, is yourself. Without question, procrastination is the most common cause of financial failure.

Sentia atração pelo que se denomina tipos fracassados, disse. Mas, que é, disse, um fracassado? Um homem que não tem, talvez, todos os dons, mas muitos, inclusive bem mais do que os comuns em certos homens de sucesso. Tem esses dons, disse, e não os explora. Ele os destrói. De modo, disse, que na realidade destrói sua vida.

Querido lector, querida lectora: todo matrimonio es un reality show, una prueba para los nervios y los pasados y las violencias, y un experimento cruel para que todos los demás, todos los testigos que miran de reojo, confirmen y sigan creyendo que el fracaso es el destino de los otros: "pobres…

While we strive to be like God, we're pretty apt to fail, and we let ourselves down. I think more so than [we let God down]. God knows that we are dust, and I don't think He's too uptight about it.

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

the ethic envisioned by the New Testament writers is not an impossible ideal. If we fail to live in obedient responsiveness to their moral vision, that is because of a failure of the imagination—or perhaps a lack of courage—on our part.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.