Quotes about failure
failure concern accounts
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine. Mahatma Gandhi
failure numbers two
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed Gustav Mahler
failure world trouble
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult. Gilbert K. Chesterton
failure civilization world
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
failure who-i-am hendrix
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. John Mayer
failure mean acceptance
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph. Sydney J. Harris
failure criticism lapses
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag
failure thinking too-much
Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on? Ray Romano
failure failing ifs
If you must fail ... fail spectacularly! Ransom Riggs
failure government giving
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. Thomas Jefferson
failure men thinking
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. Robert W. Service
failure blessing civil-war
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. Robert E. Lee
failure ideas trying
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. Richard P. Feynman
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure procrastination done
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Rita Mae Brown
failure risk kind
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. Richard Marcinko
failure way compost
I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way. Tim Johnson
failure wrong-answers problem
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. Sam Harris
failure balance wells
You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet. Rory McIlroy
failure england failing
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live? Rudyard Kipling
failure failing ashamed
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. Samuel Johnson
failure defeat discouragement
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
failure self effort
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
failure thinking effectiveness
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance. Stephen Covey
failure responsibility accepting
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! Vaclav Havel
failure fall ideas
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming change. As soon as scepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith. Stefan Molyneux
failure succeed
Nothing succeeds like - failure. Tommy Lasorda
failure problem
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. Steve Martin
failure contemplating ifs
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. Simon Cowell
failure america world
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud
failure errors
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.