Failure Quotes · Page 8

“Mistakes are lessons and lessons are gifts. Examine them.”

— Jen Knox

“When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is…

— John Holt

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

— Lindsey Graham

Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum.

— Jeff Sutherland

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

— Evelyn Underhill

Suddenly you make no mistakes because thats only me.

— Jenna Bognar

Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the…

— F.B. Meyer

The biggest mistake I see with people who are new to CrossFit is trying to advance too quickly. Just because you can…

— Mat Fraser

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

— Alexander Suvorov

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

— Mark Wahlberg

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

— Martin Firrell

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There’s a victory that looks like defeat.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“My uncle plans everything,’ said Laurent, as though reading Damen’s thoughts. ‘He plans for victory and he plans for defeat. It was…

— C.S. Pacat

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for…

— George Eliot

Sometimes the harder you fall, the stronger you rise.

— Anonymous

In life, everyone is intelligence, don't let a low test score, or a college rejection define who you are. Because you were…

— Byaombe Salome

“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let…

— Alastair Reynolds

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

— Christian Marclay

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail…

— Bill Gates

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us…

— Laurence Sterne

“Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a…

— Max Barry

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

— Sting

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

— Thomas A. Edison