Quotes About Failure

porque un fracaso compartido une más que una victoria común.

se derrumbó del todo cuando descubrió los placeres del fracaso, la serenidad de la abulia absoluta, la venenosa satisfacción de estar todo el día en la cama, sin otro compromiso que esperar la llegada de un nuevo día de pasividad, de estricta indolencia.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.

If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing out loud what he wrote in his book, and he is a parrot; or he is explaining interesting things that he didn't discuss in his book, in which case the book in question is a failure since it does not live up to its claims.

Pero los demás, los que fracasaban en las pruebas, sabían desde su más tierna edad que, en el mejor de los casos, se convertirían en carne de empresa, como hubo carne de cañón. Y luego se sorprenden de que tantos adolescentes japoneses se suiciden.

Put je u svakom slucaju trnovit. Vise od dvije trecine veza ne uspiju ga prijeci. Tada se javlja neprijateljstvo, nesporazum, sutnja, katkad i mrznja. Ti se neuspjesi javljaju upravo zbog sumnje koja navodi na to kako se problem ne bi ni pojavio da je to prijateljstvo bilo doista iskreno. To nije tocno. Takva je kriza neizbjezna. Cak i ako zbilja nekog obozavamo, nismo spremni na to da bude s nama.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.

In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work.

I knew the day I left Newport that if I came back, I'd failed. The fear of losing the game, of having to go home and tell my family, 'I tried but it didn't work out,' has haunted me. It is still there, and it is a strength and a weakness.

Resilient people aren't afraid to admit they have weaknesses. Whether an effective leader acknowledges problems within an organization, or an individual recognizes areas in need of personal growth, resilient people use failure as an opportunity to spot their weaknesses.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.