Quotes Tagged "failure"

We cannot have, but can lose, everything.

While recovering from failure, the bitter find comfort, not in the phrase ‘This too shall pass’, but in their hope that ‘They too shall fail’.

A mere compliment has been the seed of some people’s downfall.

The fear of failure repels opportunities for success

Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.

Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.

Success depends not on who you are or where you are coming from. Success depends on what you think - when you think

Experience is what you get when you get out of your comfort zone.

A failure is someone who gets used to the failure, by allowing themselves trapped in a vicious cycle of failure and forgetting. Successful people never forget the pain associated with failure. They work towards not getting hurt again.

No stress. Just keep sticking it to failure until you give birth to success.

Failure and success have always both a dramatic turn. But unlike failure, which, most often, timorously withdraws by taking a U-turn, success fearlessly takes a head-on collision with failure upon failures until it clears its path along the way.

If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.

Without seeking truth it is unlikely you will find success. The truth very well might set you free, but it’s not always fun. People say they want the truth, but more accurately, they want the truth that is easy to hear. They don’t want the painful truths that don’t support our decisions or force us to accept we were wrong about something. But without truth, you will never be able to course-correct. Putting the company first and your bruised feelings second is an important step in saving your start-up from failure.

Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed.  

A civilization is glorious in its successes and tragic in its failures. An anti-civilization is terrifying in its successes and spectacular in its failures. A pseudo-civilization is annoying in its successes and ridiculous in its failures.

Parenting is the privilege of constant failure... and being loved anyway.

The difference between success and failure is that when you see barriers you bring about failure, and when you see possibilities you bring about success.

The possibility of failure does not prevent contestants from competing because when we are optimistic, we tend to ignore failure. But it is failure that teaches success. Success and failure are not simultaneous; one must take precedence.

How full the cup of my life might be is based largely on the degree to which I’m willing to risk failure, with the degree to which I’m willing to risk success following at a close second.

Failure is one missing step; while success is that extra step.