Quotes About Failure

It is true that many young people who do not love rightly, who simply surrender themselves and leave no room for aloneness, experience the depressing feeling of failure.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the rest of his life.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

Failure isn't losing, failure is mediocrity.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

Ni se pare de la sine înÈ›eles c? nenorocirea È™i eÈ™ecul nasc cinism. ?i avem impresia c? puterea È™i frumuseÈ›ea aduc împlinire.

When I was in school, every student's grades and position in the class were printed in the leading newspapers for all to see. Success or failure was reason for public pride or shame. One of my closest friends toyed with suicide after his high-school exams because he did not stand first in the entire city of New Delhi. Another one of my classmates in college actually burned himself to death because he did not make the grade. Such

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six un-publishable ones. Keep typing!)

Nosotros, los habitantes de la Tierra, tenernos un talento especial para arruinar las cosas grandes y hermosas.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something — and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world — not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.

Fatalism is born of the fear of failure, for we all believe that we carry success in our own hands, and we suspect that our hands are weak.

por qué el neoliberalismo, las ideas basadas en el libre mercado, fracasaron, y por qué las medidas económicas de Trump, esa combinación peculiar de recortes impositivos para los ricos y desregulaciones financieras y ambientales con nativismo y proteccionismo —es decir, una globalización altamente regulada— están también destinadas al fracaso.

Reagan redirected the country's economy, but he also crystallized a redirection of values toward more materialism and more selfishness. The failure of his approach to yield the fruits that had been promised did not result in the course correction that one would have hoped. It led only to a doubling down on a flawed set of ideas.

On every criterion by which performance is usually measured, the eurozone has been failing. Its performance has been poor relative to the United States, from which the crisis originated, and relative to non-eurozone Europe. Even Germany could not escape.

Being an anti-capitalist and hence being able to blame capitalism—often known more simply as "the system"—for any failure I might encounter through my own lack of talent or absence of energy not only provided me with a fine fallback position, but permitted me to view anyone who labored at a workaday job in the system with a rather lofty contempt.

Wenn auch nur etwas von dem, was in diesem Buch über den Todesstern Gizeh oder die zum Waffenbau verwendete Physik steht, annähernd der Wahrheit nahekommt, dann stehen wir in der Tat an der Schwelle zu einem Paradigmenwechsel mit welterschütternden geopolitischen Folgen. Daher hoffe ich, dass nichts von dem, was ich hier beschreibe, wahr ist, und dass ich auf ganzer Linie versagt habe.

that the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.

the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.

In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily.