Failure Quotes - Page 38

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible of reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

It is the empiric who never fails.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?