Quotes by category:Failure

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

Deepak Chopra

failure media home

I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

Donald Freed

failure dream mean

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.

Donald Hall

failure flower summer

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

Donna de Varona

failure giving-up hands

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Donny Deutsch

failure moments business

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.

Donny Deutsch

smart failure inspirational

Failure is not an option on this one.

Donny Deutsch

failure-is-not-an-option failure failing

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

failure positive inspirational

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Dolly Parton

failure thank-god reflection

If I didn't care for fun and such,

Dorothy Parker

failure fun giving

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Douglas Coupland

failure doe looks

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Douglas Coupland

failure light sometimes

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Douglas Coupland

failure opportunity sometimes

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

Douglas Coupland

failure states real

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Douglas Coupland

failure band sound

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

adversity failure music

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

E. O. Wilson

failure successful memorable

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.

E. M. Forster

failure fighting stars

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Earl Warren

failure fear sports

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Earl Nightingale

failure success attitude