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Quotes About Failure

No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the wild creatures And man united with the earth. I have failed after many seasons To bring truth to birth, And nature's simple equations In the mind's precincts do not apply. But where to turn? Earth endures After the passing, necessary shame Of winter, and the old lie Of green places beckons me still From the new world, ugly and evil, That men pry for in truth's name.
~ R.S. Thomas
My soul is fate's chew toy. My destiny pursues me like an experienced tracker., like a malevolent hunter, bites me and won't let go. What I thought I left behind I find again. I'll always be a failure, then, now, and forever.
~ Rabih Alameddine
My soul is fate's chew toy. My destiny pursues me like an experienced tracker, like a malevolent hunter, bites me and won't let go. What I thought I left behind I find again. I'll always be a failure, then, now, and forever. Fail again. Fail worse. I witness my life's collapse.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I'm a failed narcissist.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
~ Rachael Ray
Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to be convince yourself of.
~ Rachel Cusk
He had destroyed the thing she loved most; she, in her turn, had exposed him to failure through expectations he was unable to fulfil. Without meaning to, they had found one another's deepest vulnerabilities: they had arrived, by this awful shortcut, at the place where for each of them a relationship usually ended, and set out from there.
~ Rachel Cusk
It seems success takes you away from what you know, he said, while failure condemns you to it.
~ Rachel Cusk
Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.
~ Rachel Cusk
El éxito te aleja de las cosas que conoces, por lo visto, mientras que el fracaso te condena a ellas.
~ Rachel Cusk
O que Ryan havia aprendido com isso era que os seus fracassos vivem voltando para você, enquanto os seus sucessos são algo de que você precisa sempre se convencer.
~ Rachel Cusk
Parece que o sucesso leva você para longe daquilo que conhece, disse ele, enquanto o fracasso o condena a isso.
~ Rachel Cusk
What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.
~ Rachel Cusk
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
~ Rachel Griffiths
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
The Democratic Party has failed us, because we haven't run the progressive platform we've been promised... That's why people have moved their votes to the Republicans.
~ Paula Jean Swearengin
Hathi Ram's journey intrigued me. He is a very vulnerable character. I was never offered such a role of a man who is a failure in life and is desperate to prove himself. It was a good change for me to play someone with such a nice arc and so many shades to his personality.
~ Jaideep Ahlawat
People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That's why they have the success that they have.
~ Gunnar Peterson
An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
~ Nushrat Bharucha
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
~ Emma Stone
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
~ Stuart Rose
Anything edgy won't see instant success. That's why one will have to learn to wait. You're going to see a lot of failures.
~ Naveen Tewari