Quotes by Failure I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas. Luke Johnson failurelearningmistake All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure. Lydia M. Child selfishfailurepeople Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable owingfailurethinking It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable failurecommoncharacter There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. Madeleine L'Engle exhaustingfailure How to fail: Try too hard. Malcolm Forbes failurefailingtrying In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X failuredeedssuccess Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. Marcus Aurelius philosophicalfailureinspirational Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero philosophicalfailuremistake Nothing fails like failure Margaret Drabble failurefailing (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. Margaret Thatcher failuredestinyeurope Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on. Margaret Mead failurejourneygoes-on When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. Maria Callas failuremusicwisdom Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. Marian Wright Edelman failurewritinginspirational Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. Marie Forleo encouragingfailureprocrastination Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Marilyn Monroe perseverancefailurecourage When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud. Mario Andretti failureblackclouds I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure. Marion Jones failurerunningthinking It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. Mark Cuban entrepreneurfailurelucky Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel. Mark McCormack failureenergydesire«2223242526272829303132»
