Failure Quotes - Page 33

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Failure is the mechanism of learning.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.