Quotes About Failure

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

Tú sabes que el único motivo de arrepentimiento, no ya para un asesino, sino para cualquiera, es el fracaso.

El éxito lleva en su interior la semilla del fracaso, y viceversa.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

To shorten what otherwise might become a long list of possible points of failure, it is sufficient to say that counselors may fail in exactly the same ways that their counselees have failed. Consequently, it is important for counselors to examine their own lives and their counseling practices in the light of every failure they detect in others. Counselees become strong reminders of human error and sin and, in that sense, are among the counselor's most valuable teachers.

If a new relationship based upon biblical change and help is not established, then it is likely that one or more of the parties will revert to his old ways again. If so, again an unreconciled condition will develop. This failure frequently results in a kiss-and-make-up pattern.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

The hard decisions," Ridgway added, "are not the ones you make in the heat of battle. Far harder to make are those involved in speaking your mind about some hare-brained scheme, which proposes to commit troops to action under conditions where failure is almost certain, and the only results will be the needless sacrifice of priceless lives.

It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

regimes that self-destruct through collective blindness.

The fear of failure, of feeling helpless and unable to cope, had been built up in me ever since my childhood. I had to be a success. I had to prove my worth. I had to be right. This need to succeed and to be accepted, even admired by my parents and by those whom I considered my "superiors," was a strong motivating force in me and is a motivation at the heart of many human endeavours.

But if neither sadness or rage could unite us, I didn't know what could - the more I wanted to identify with her, the more I identified with myself; and the more I tried to understand her, the less, necessarily, I succeeded: the failure of an intelligent mind to grasp feeblemindedness was dark and deep, no less than the failure of a feeble mind to grasp intelligence, because intelligence got its shape by not understanding the thing it could never be.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The best nonfiction book on the war came out in 1988 by a former war journalist, Neil Sheehan. Titled A Bright Shining Lie, it told in hellish detail of endless American waste and failure. It told of intelligence ignored and wisdom cast aside. The book

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The men her girlfriends dated were too often angry and muttering about oppression. One of the reasons she took to Skeet later in life was that he never went to that place; he believed with a firm positivity that he didn't need to waste time resenting real or imagined social constructs because he would always be ahead of them. The individual, not the people, was responsible for success or failure.

If being any kind of hero falls all the way down to men like you, then we have already lost.