Quotes About Failure

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow. Dreams are hard to catch, aren't they? Especially if you don't have the courage to try.

failure is easier to live with than regret

You're human, Tracy, which means you're not perfect. You're going to fail, through no fault of your own. That's part of being human, being imperfect. The question is, can you live with being imperfect? Can you live with failure?

choke, and pulled the rip cord. The engine cranked, sputtered, and died. He made sure the gear was in neutral and the

clear implication is that the failure to accept, protect, and love a child—or, what is worse, the active harming of a child—would preclude real contact with Jesus.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

Hemos fracasado ?gimió Julieta. Merlín les sonrió con gran ternura. ?No ?contestó?. Esto no es un fracaso, sólo es una experiencia.

Ahora bien, visto de modo retrospectivo, esa retirada —en una época en que los Estados Unidos no habían tomado un partido en Oriente Próximo— fue una de las grandes tragedias de nuestro tiempo. Los europeos nos apoderamos de la zona. Y fracasamos. Cuando los Estados Unidos volvieron a entrar en la región un cuarto de siglo más tarde, lo hicieron por el petróleo y, poco después, como partidarios casi incondicionales y financiadores de Israel.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

As long as there shall be pain and failure, want and sorrow, agony and crime, men and women will untie life's knot and seek the peace of death.

writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

He'd always been a bad loser. He had to emerge from this embarrassingly short marriage the winner, by walking away with all the money, and stigmatizing Robin as the sole reason for its failure.

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels." Strike

The live broadcast began with a countdown. A few seconds in, a numbered balloon failed to burst. Let it not be shit, thought Strike, suddenly forgetting everything else in an upsurge of patriotic paranoia.

Thanks, anyway,' she said, and he had the feeling that he had disappointed her, that she'd hoped he would make her a promise of the truth, that he would swear upon his honor to do what everyone else had failed to do.

If you want lifelong friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)

Success has a million musical nuances. Failure is only the monotonous banging of a brass gong.

Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

A person whose main difficulty is not crop failure but video breakdown has less need of the consolations and promises of religion.