Failure Quotes - Page 3

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

The whole world is one family.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough.

(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.