Quotes about failure
failure night typewriters
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams
failure dying buzz
There's a buzz to failing and not dying. Stephen Colbert
failure innovation sides
Success is on the far side of failure. Thomas J. Watson
failure science malaria
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. Ronald Ross
failure food weight-loss
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields
failure artist way
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself. Tracey Emin
failure missing mark
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly? Ouida
failure taste excuse
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Oscar Wilde
failure thumbs crowds
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds. Wilbur Smith
failure good-luck thinking
If you think you can - you can! Ronald Reagan
failure mean detours
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar
failure men misery
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Samuel Johnson
failure past design
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
failure errors rockets
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. Wernher von Braun
failure trying-different-things trying-new-things
The greatest failure is the failure to try. William Arthur Ward
failure delay detours
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
failure giving individual
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. Voltaire
failure crime i-have-made-mistakes
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is. Walter Wriston
failure failing mishaps
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one Walter Savage Landor
failure thinking care
Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested. William J. H. Boetcker
failure trying learning-from-mistakes
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. Woody Allen
failure errors trials
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth. William Whewell
failure steps success-failure
Every failure is a step to success.
failure writing people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. William McFee
failure trying guarantees
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. William J. Clinton
failure fire use
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. William James
failure lows persons
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
failure men secret
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.
failure adversity men
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler
failure no-failure
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
failure memorable messing-up
Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up. Wayne Dyer
failure screw-ups life-is
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. Sarah Dessen
failure winning games
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. William Hazlitt