Quotes About Failure

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

If you wonder why you choose to worship other gods rather than wholeheartedly devote yourself to the Lord you love, examine the thought and desires that captivate your heart. That's where you'll fin the answer to every sin and failure in your life. Don't be deceived into thinking that you need to develop more willpower. We need to develop godly thoughts and desires.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.

You have failed to complete your mission. You didn't even get NEAR completing it, in fact. You deserve to be disfigured. Be ashamed.

You may be a failure at the moment – but you're a very fine failure, Darrell! You're a lot better than some people who think they're a success.

Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

Jack always had wonderful plans, though not many of them came to anything.

experiencia poética como solución imaginaria al problema de la realidad, subyace la infraexperiencia del fracaso, la otra cara del «triunfo» que es, de por sí, el arte de la palabra.

Si gano, soy un genio. Si pierdo, estoy loco. Así es como se escribe la historia.

Si je gagne, je suis un génie, si je perd, je suis fou.

Wenn ich gewinne, wird man sagen, ich sei ein Genie, wenn ich verliere, wird es heißen, ich sei übergeschnappt. So wird Geschichte geschrieben.

If you have nothing better to do than praise me for it, then my speech was a failure.

Because they failed to come to grips with the plantation itself, the leaders of Presidential Reconstruction lacked a coherent vision of Southern progress.

even this early in his career, Lincoln recognized slavery as the crucial question the founders had failed to resolve and the greatest threat to the survival of the republic. Condemnations

O domínio do passado não implica em uma imagem de imobilidade social. É compatível com visões cíclicas de mudança histórica, e certamente com a regressão e a catástrofe (ou seja, o fracasso em reproduzir o passado). É incompatível com a ideia de progesso contínuo.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually their innermost desire is for an end to the "free for all." They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society. 29

There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us

The most incurably frustrated—and, therefore, the most vehement—among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work. Both those who try to write, paint, compose, etcetera, and fail decisively, and those who after tasting the elation of creativeness feel a drying up of the creative flow within and know that never again will they produce aught worth-while, are alike in the grip of a desperate passion.