Quotes on Failure

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,_x000D_ _x000D_ imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

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

It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."