Quotes by Failure Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses are to be built at all, in sufficient quantity, they must be built without money. We must go right outside the framework of the money system, bypass the factories, and ignore the contractors. Hassan Fathy failuremoneyhouse It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Havelock Ellis failurebusinesspositive Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. Harvey Mackay planningfailurefailing Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. Hendrik Willem van Loon failureignorancethinking the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall. Heloise advancementfailurefall My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. Harry S. Truman failure4th-of-julyfather Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter. Henry Anatole Grunwald failureteachingeducation Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. H. L. Mencken failurelearningmen Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die. Henry Chesbrough innovationfailurebusiness The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded. Henry Dreyfuss failurehappyhands Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O, abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou, who changest not, abide with me. Henry Francis Lyte failurelifefall One who fears failure limits his activities. Henry Ford failurelimitsfear Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it. Henry Jacob Bigelow failuresuccessfulcharacter 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. Henry Knox failuredonewar As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. Henry Kravis failurefacestrying Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. Helen Keller failuregiving-upcheer One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. Henry Ford failurefearinspirational When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public. Henry Morton Stanley failurelightscience success is 99% failure Henry Ford failuremistakesuccess Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. Henri Frederic Amiel discouragementfailurepride«1213141516171819202122»
