Quotes About Failure

Every time we put something into words, we simultaneously pronounce a declaration fo faith in the power of language to re-create and communicate our experience of the world, and our admission of its shortcomings to name this experience fully... All our libraries are the glorious record of that failure.

What we put into words are the shadows of shadows, and every book confesses the impossibility of holding fully onto whatever it is that our experience seizes. All our libraries are the glorious records of that failure.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

sva ta težnja ljudi da budu više nego ljudski. Idiotska zato što nikada ne uspijeva. Nastojiš biti više nego ljudski, a uspijevaš postati samo manje nego ljudski... Hodamo po zemlji i nisu nam potrebna krila...

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress. (Crowley quote from book Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin.)

Perché una soluzione perfetta che non riesco a spiegare alla gente è destinata a fallire.

Comience a llevar un diario: un registro de todas sus operaciones, con las razones para entrar y salir de éstas. Busque patrones repetitivos de éxito y de fracaso. Aquellos que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo. El

Anybody can lose,' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win.

The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.

And then, when the inevitable mechanical failure occurred, rather than trying to understand what signs had been overlooked, he would bully the engine. There was no other word for it: he would bully it by removing bolts and nuts brutally;

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Well, more than likely you will never entirely dissolve either your fear of your own failure or your small pleasure in other people's.

The only possible failure would be never managing to find the right role or the right partners to help you realize that strength.

The point here is not that you should always forgo this kind of weakness fixing. The point is that you should see it for what it is: damage control, not development. And as we mentioned earlier, damage control can prevent failure, but it will never elevate you to excellence.

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information.

When we cease to identify ourselves with things outside our control and when we cease to wrongly attribute our success or failure to these things, we are well on the way to finding a place of inner ease that no one and no thing can take away from us.

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.