Quotes About Failure

How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly.

The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.

He had destroyed his talent by not using it

How did you go bankrupt? Bill asked. Two ways, Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly.

Jak jsi vlastnÄ› zbankrotoval?" zeptal se Bill. "Dvojím zp?sobem," Ã…â"¢ekl Mike. "NejdÃ…â"¢ív postupnÄ› a potom naráz.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.

If failure is our inevitable future, then let's fail boldly and fail forward.

We cannot love deeply or risk greatly and never know failure or disappointment.

Podemos tener tanto miedo a la muerte que nunca vivimos, tanto miedo al fracaso que nunca nos arriesgamos, tanto miedo al dolor que nunca descubrimos cuán fuertes somos realmente.

The way of the warrior is not free from pain, it is not free from disappointment, and it is not free from failure. The warrior knows well the struggles that come with fear and self-doubt and even despair. The warrior knows there are no victories that are not first won - within. Never forget who you are.

Today so many creative and devoted teachers not only have to struggle against unimaginative administrations, fearful parents, and wearied colleagues, they have also to battle entire legislative bodies that have never taught a child yet dare to equate educational success or failure with the ability of fourth graders to choose one out of four given answers to mind-numbing questions that have nothing to do with the joy of literature or the elegance of math.

You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.

There are only two kinds of Shakespeare productions; ones that change your life, and ones that suck shit. That's it. Because if it doesn't change the audience's life... the production has failed.

Unlike Grand Hotel and Titanic, but like The Wild Party and Sweet Smell of Success, our last special show was a failure. However, the previous two titles at least ran a few months. Amour (2002) lasted two weeks. This is a historically instructive show even so in its return to first principles, as a modern version of what Jacques Offenbach was doing when he invented musical comedy in the 1850s and '60s: not in his format but in his spirit.

It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality.

To what extent was this David Cameron's fault? It's hard to think of a more complete definition of political failure than an essentially pro-EU Prime Minister who plots to defeat his enemies on the right, and by doing so ejects his country from the EU by mistake,

I put the story aside and added it to the growing list of things I was inadequate at or incapable of doing.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.

Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Churchill, Perth

That's war: very high in the morning and very low in the evening: from triumph to failure is only one step.