Quotes About Failure

I thought about my brother. I hated him. Hated him like a child hates a fallen hero. I hated him for his unlimited potential and his failure to realize it. I hated him because I could see everything that was wonderful about him, how brilliant, how beautiful he was, and how he had turned his back on everything he could have been, cast it off like a designer suit for which he'd paid an obscene sum and never wore.

Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

What's wrong with mistakes? Not that I'd know. No one's ever let me make any.

You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart

Successes are secret and thankless, failures are splashy and gain you only blame.

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.

I offer you an honorable new beginning. I do not guarantee its ending. Attempts fail, but not as certainly as tasks never attempted.

But I've always thought—tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.... If you think it's really wrong...that's one thing. Maybe that's the test. But if it's only the fear of failure, you have not the right to refuse the gift for that. It's an impossible job. That happens sometimes.

Hell, you had to at least achieve monogamy before you could go on to larger ambitions. So far he had failed to attach even one woman to his sawed-off person. Of course, nearly three years in covert ops, and the period before that in the all-male environs of the military academy, had limited his opportunities. Nice

Hell. I saw Cassie running for that car and you know what ran through my mind, Merrie?" he asked her painfully. Merinus sighed deeply. "That you had failed." She surprised him with that answer. "You couldn't protect your own, and now you hadn't protected Cassie either." "Yeah," he breathed out roughly. "But how did you know?" "Because it's the same thing Sherra told me before she locked herself in her room

And Rowdy felt like a failure. He had failed to protect the only woman who had ever held his heart because he was too damned busy running from her. He should have been home, he should have been holding her in his bed, loving the hell out of her. If he had staked his claim, she wouldn't have been in that damned apartment.

Unfortunately, you have lost the respect of all but one of your co-workers and many of your superiors as well, who are working in order to send their daughters to universities so they won't have to be secretaries, and who, therefore, hold you in contempt for having a degree and being a failure anyway. It is like having a degree in failure.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

It is wrong to believe that such men suffer in the conscience for what they do Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is only regret at being caught that troubles them. And they never admit it was any fault of their own Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it was always chance, bad luck.… The criminal does not regret his crime, he only regrets failure.

Well, not exactly. I got a C-minus on the paper I wrote about my idea for the ergie. So then

But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.

Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

Though the experiment has failed, the principle remains the same.

Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I am satisfied. I've done what I undertook, and it's not my fault that it failed. I comfort myself with that, said Amy with a little quiver in her voice. I thank you all

Highty-tighty! Is this the way you take my advice, Miss? You'll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you've tried love in a cottage and found it a failure. It can't be a worse one than some people find in big houses, retorted Meg.