Read quote“It proved to be his biggest mistake.”
About Failure
Setbacks, mistakes, learning from defeat, and resilience after unsuccessful efforts.
The collection
Words on Failure
Read quote“You can’t hit a home run every day.”
Read quote“I seldom paint portraits, and when I do I neither please myself nor my employers.”
Read quote“I’d rather that we try and not succeed rather than not trying at all.”
Read quote“Não evoluímos na última década.”
Read quote“I cannot do it.”
Read quote“We have won at youth level before, but we have not been able to do it at the senior level.”
Read quote“Fear of failure. It’s hard to make big gambles, take chances.”
Read quote“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.”
Read quote“Ať se Vaše holčička nenechá odradit prvními neúspěchy, ty ji jedině zocelí.”
Read quote“The third season is fatal.”
Read quote“It teaches us how to fall… and we never, ever give up.”
Read quote“Winning isn't everything. There should be no conceit in victory and no despair in defeat.”
Read quote“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
Read quote“I’m so incompetent at normal life it’s nice to be competent on expedition!”
Read quote“There is only one thing that we did not make the mistake - that is, never give up.”
Read quote“The trouble is that within the Christian community itself there are ominous signs of a widespread inability to deal with this problem in adequately Christian terms.”
Read quote“In his view virtue lies not in caution in avoiding errors but in ruthlessness in eliminating them.”
Read quote“Le niveau est passable pour ne pas dire médiocre.”
Read quote“I don't like to lose.”
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