Quotes About Failure

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn't mean you've wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don't amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most

The grandiose person is never really free; first, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

I understood what a mysterious and oppressive obligation I had, to be happy, and how I had almost failed it, and would be likely to fail it, every time, and she would not know.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. I give it to him straight, just like it come to me. And it seem to come to me from the trees.

The male effort to separate Wisdom from the realm of the Feminine is not only brutal and unattractive but it will always fail, though this may take, as with Buddhism, thousands of years. This is simply because the Feminine is Wisdom; it is also the Soul.

Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory

Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion! Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death! Money against Eternity! and eternity's strong mills grind out vast paper of Illusion!

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

An ambassador is a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given an office by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Justificarea tiranului pentru crime ÅŸi scuza prostului pentru eÅŸecuri este destinul.