A Failure Quotes
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.
I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.
I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.
You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.
I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.
I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.
Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.
We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.
There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.
This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.
Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.
Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.