Quotes About Failure

That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you.

Nostramo. A lawless and sunless place. It burned not because it was guilty but because we failed to keep it innocent. Our laws failed the moment we sailed away to the stars and in desperate embarrassment our father incinerated the evidence of his failure.

The greater fool is actually an economic term. It's a patsy. For the rest of us to profit, we need a greater fool— someone who will buy long and sell short. Most people spend their life trying not to be the greater fool; we toss him the hot potato, we dive for his seat when the music stops. The greater fool is someone with the perfect blend of self-delusion and ego to think that he can succeed where others have failed. This whole country was made by greater fools.

The Shop City Mall had been closed for over a decade. Stores sat empty the entire time, waiting for a rebirth that was often promised, but never came. My parents had always blamed its demise on Amazon and Target, but I blamed the fact that Cinnabon is fucking gross and not a single living person has ever bought anything from a Brookstone.

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Si la désorganisation garantit l'échec, l'organisation ne garantit pas la réussite.

For millions of people, she could hear him say with thattremulousintensity of his, moving is a moment of ruin and failure, a defeat that is no longer avoidable, a desperate flight, going from bad to worse, from home to homelessness, from citizen to refugee, from living a tolerable or even contented life to vile horror.

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued." But, he adds, it is out of failure that a person often finds the inner strength to grow and attain major achievements in life. "A lot of people make a big contribution to society out of their own suffering," he says. "A crisis forces change.

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Mostly, I enjoy my failings. Until I don't.

Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit.

I was failing to accomplish whatever I might be capable of, a prophecy that seemed to fulfill itself more with each passing year as I fell behind friends and acquaintances in their patchwork progress toward building their adult lives.

They ended up getting rolled almost as bad as Neville Chamberlain, he continued, referring to the British prime minister who negotiated the 1938 Munich Agreement, which was widely panned as enabling the Nazi invasion of Poland. They set this up to fail, Kinzinger said.

any action predicated solely on DNA sequence seems to me to be a high-risk endeavor, prone to specious failure.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

Lovallo and Kahneman offer a useful prescription to repair this cognitive bias: Get the data. Track down actual figures on launch failure rates for your company, your industry, other industries or projects similar to yours. The numbers will be fascinating – and sobering.

risky launches are. As if intoxicated by their own sense of self-confidence, they plunge ahead, often committing many of the same mistakes that have doomed countless launches before them. They end up adding to the dismal failure statistics.

The heroism Kranz displayed in that situation wasn't physical heroism, military heroism or political heroism, but organisational heroism, which is arguably every bit as important but which often gets short shrift. Compounded of tenacity, imagination, shrewd judgement, self-awareness and sheer willpower, it's a form of heroism that's desperately needed today and that is in especially short supply in most failed launch attempts.

So try this nightmare exercise: Imagine disaster. Ask why you failed; list all the possible reasons. Then do your best to counter those mistakes before they have a chance to occur. Most launches die from self-inflicted wounds. It means that if you're willing to take a clear-eyed look at the forces seemingly conspiring to derail your next launch, you'll probably find that the most powerful factors are actually under your control.

And dinnae be afraid to fail. The only way to learn anything in life is to try and fail, then continue trying until ye succeed.