“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.”
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“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
“The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.”
“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.”
“I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.”
“War remains the decisive human failure.”
“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.”
“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.”
“There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.”
“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”
“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”
“As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.”
“The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”
“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”
“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”
“But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.”
“It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”