Quotes About Failure

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

Most of the reason we don't do things is because we're afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

It tasted like salt and failure.

Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, then from my eyes, my ears, my mouth. It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch.

WELCOME TO THE beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.

But if I am a criminal, am I, then, an addict? Am I, then, a failure?

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence.

We are ourselves only by the sum of our failures.

An existence transfigured by failure.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. It is necessary to prepare for an examination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method, or fail.

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

El amor había fallado. El amor era una emoción a través de la cual podías a veces gozarte a ti mismo. No podía dar frutos.

He had failed, and that wasn't the saddest: he had seen Alex fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.