Quotes About Reflection

Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

Success is somebody else's failure.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister's Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What's wrong with me?