In Failure Quotes
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.
An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
