Failure Quotes - Page 16

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

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.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

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.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

It is not the critic who counts

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.