Quotes about failure
failure laws
This is a failure of the implementation of laws and a failure of policy.
failure
Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective. Donna Brazile
failure full signal
The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty, Edmund Stoiber
failure good less reach three
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired. Tracy Chevalier
failures forth life power putting saddest
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
failure fate men
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. Friedrich Nietzsche
failure people looks
When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair George Osborne
failure winning games
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. George Orwell
failure envy political
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal
failure half losing
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. George Eliot
failure progress
Most progress is most failure. Robert Browning
failure succeed lows
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. Robert Browning
failure emotional thinking
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. Garry Shandling
failure complaining faults
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. Francois Fenelon
failure accepting learning-from-failure
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. George Cukor
failure haste
Haste in every business brings failures. Herodotus
failure science light
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public. Henry Morton Stanley
failure men games
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. Henry Ward Beecher
failure trying faces
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. Henry Kravis
failure able success-failure
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything. Raymond Blanc
failure world defeat
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. Katherine Anne Porter
failure islam wells
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. Karen Armstrong
failure clouds black
When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud. Mario Andretti
failure noble degrees
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. Martin Farquhar Tupper
failure desire facts
Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel. Mark McCormack
failure community mind
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures. Mother Teresa
failure success-and-failure success-failure
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. Pearl S. Buck
failure learning want
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. John W. Gardner
failure pay heavy
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. John W. Gardner
failure reading learning
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner
failure fall doors
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again. John Templeton
failure hard learning result success work
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell
failure men common
All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame. Hermann Hesse