Quotes by Failure Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs failurefearlife I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself. Steve Martin failurelove-youpeople My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. Steve Martin failureproblem That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. Sting failuresongfall ...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start. Sue Sanders perseverancefailurestrong With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that. Sue Sanders failurebusinesswaiting The whole world is one family. Sun Yat-sen vedasfailurefamily Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony positive-attitudefailurehistory There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible! Susan B. Anthony dedicationfailurenames The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph. Sydney J. Harris failureacceptancemean Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. Sylvester Stallone failuresuccessinspirational Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag lapsesfailurecriticism All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure. Sydney J. Harris achievementfailurerisk I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens failurebusinessbelieve Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot entrepreneurfailuresuccess Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with willpower to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to the straightness of this wagon of the core of the mind, he will attain right-mindedness in either case. Severing oneself from desire and being like a rock or tree, nothing will ever be achieved. Not departing from desire, but realizing a desireless right-mindedness - "this is the Way". Takuan Soho rocksfailuretree Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams congratulationsfailuresuccess I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams failuretypewritersnight Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears. Ted Turner failuretearsmen Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. Theodor Herzl colonizationsucceedfailure«3637383940414243444546»
