Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: failure

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

That's me: success and failure don't affect me.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

For years, media moguls and campaigns bankrolled by the rich have fed the lie that migrants are the cause of injustices propagated by the powerful: the failure to build housing, the strain on public services by cuts, the lack of secure jobs, the decline in real wages.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.