Quotes about failure
failure fully mechanisms understood
At this time, we haven't fully understood the failure mechanisms at all of these locations.
failure adversity darkness
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. Pliny the Elder
failure failing harm
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm. Plutarch
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 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 done way
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. Thomas A. Edison
failure president wilson
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
failure failing
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
failure discovery success-and-failure
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. John Keats
failure hell objects
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
failure positive-experiences discouraged
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
failure success-and-failure highways
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success...
failure successful men
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. John D. Rockefeller
failure luck superstitions
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
failure glory undertakings
In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure. Lee Iacocca
failure men self
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Joseph Heller
failure mean science
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working. Joseph Murray
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 design risk
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich
failure succeed transformation
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up. Paul Valery
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 exhausting
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. Madeleine L'Engle
failure world defeat
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. Katherine Anne Porter
failure care want
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. Emma Watson
failure accepting
Failure is a word I don't accept. John H. Johnson
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 trying failing
How to fail: Try too hard. Malcolm Forbes
failure concern accounts
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine. Mahatma Gandhi
failure self way
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings. Jo Coudert