Failure Quotes - Page 23

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

There is no success or failure in Nature.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

The difference between success and failure is work.

The only failure is not to try.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.