Quotes About Introspection

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.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

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.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

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?

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

An existence transfigured by failure.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can't you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you - unless you actually fail the test?

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.