Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)


    I definitely could not envision this failure. We failed to make the playoffs and that's not a good thing. It's nothing I expected at all. I thought we were capable of winning 50 games and our division. It was nowhere near that.

    I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.


    all the new PCs and the new Web servers, multiplied by the fear of top management about security breaches and business-stopping system failures, kept these salaries growing three times as fast as salaries across all industries.

    With huge majorities opposing the president's proposal to sell control of U.S. ports to Dubai and the failure of the president's Iraq policy, Republicans' once-yawning advantage on security issues has been largely neutralized.


    Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for. My whole trust is in God, and I am ready for whatever He may ordain.

    I'm trying to find my groove. It's been a rough week. My swing is not good. You got the weight of the world on you. I don't think the fans realize this sport is built on failure.





    I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

    You bring excitement and you bring people. If you just end up building more rooms, that's bad for Las Vegas. Once again, it will be a reason to come to Las Vegas. If it isn't, it will be a failure.

    You have continual suspense, unfolding letter by letter. You have all these ups and downs in your characters' fortunes. Success or failure is only seconds away, and it's in their own hands. You have character and action built right in.






    The way to do it right is to take every kid aside one by one and tell them privately what they did well and didn't do well, ... You want to let kids understand that failure is a part of getting better. The big problem is when failure is just presented as failure. That's traumatizing.




    The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

    When you come here and the expectations are really high then the failure hurts that much worse. You want it so much for the kids. When things don't work out the way you planned, it's frustrating and upsetting. Things didn't work out for us in the morning and then it just snowballed. We were never able to get out of it. But we had great effort and the underclassmen got a lot of experience.






    I think they've got their head in the sand, failing to recognize their market share is deteriorating and will continue to deteriorate much faster than they or anyone else anticipated a few years ago.


    In generalities, thank God people are nipping at my heels, talking about me, and jealous. Sometimes people celebrate my failures. It's just a different take on things. Sometimes people are good people and sometimes people are bad people. Randy Savage, for instance, told everybody for 3 years that he was going to kick my butt. I ran into him in Orlando, walked right up to him, offered to shake his hand - he wouldn't shake my hand, didn't want to go outside. He just sat in his chair and shook for 30 minutes scared to death. That has got to tell you something about his character. He can say whatever he wants. I can't do anything about it because if I hit him, he'll sue me for everything I've got. That's his deal. That's what makes him happy. He lives in misery.




    I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.





    The list goes on and on of Saudi failures, and their central role that they have played in one way or another in this rise of Islamic fundamentalism all over the world, ... This Week.

    New Yorkers, in general, love disaster. They love blizzards, power failures, etc. (I don't mean that they loved September 11.) A shared disaster brings them together more - ethnically, racially - because the disaster affects almost all of them, making no distinctions. Their manners are generally very good indeed. And their generosity can be without limits.

    We're trying to ensure the dam, which has been identified for years as being at risk for failure. That's the most crucial structure. After that we'll identify the status of the buildings on the parcel.

    You know ... I feel like we didn't get the title, but that doesn't mean by any means that we're a failure or we have negative feelings. I think that we probably exceeded everybody's expectations. We got 22 wins. We tied for the most wins ever in the history of the program ...

    At some point people are going to have to decide if we're going to keep addressing the failures of the past or begin to address the future. How do you expect to go hand in hand, solving the problem, when one of the parties is throwing stones.

    No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.


    Our concept is to fly on existing or emerging vehicles. That gives us the ability to shift from one launch provider to another, so should any one of the vehicles have a failure, we'll still have access to space.




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