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Quotes About Failure

I am in danger of going deaf, mute, and turning nihilistic thanks to the countless failures and the unpredictability of rare successes.
~ Elena Ferrante
Vice is basically the love of failure.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Manchmal scheitern wir in der Tat, und ich glaube fast, dieses prinzipielle Scheitern ist unser letztes Ziel.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Porok je u na?elu uvijek ljubav prema neuspjehu.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
One failure is worth seven and a half successes.
~ Eli Khamarov
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
~ Eli Siegel
I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
~ Elie Tahari
When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.
~ Anthony Swofford
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
~ Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
~ Anton Chekhov
There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They're too weak to make it from shore to shore. I saw the words underwater, millions of them; they're lying there on the bottom of the sea, a whole load of wrecked sentences, sentences that never reached their destination, questions from one side and answers from the other…
~ Antonia Michaelis
I saw everything before me in good order, possible, realized or realizable. Nevertheless, it was as if I, I myself, might generate failure. Not that I judged myself guilty of this failure; it was as if the guilt were an inheritance and had little to do with me. I was equipped with a kind of advance resignation. Everything is possible, I saw, and in the end every possibility can be exhausted.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
Experience can only be achieved from mistakes, mistakes can only be achieved from stupidity, and stupidity can only be achieved from experience.
~ Antonio Diaz
El fracaso, el desasosiego, los pesares derivados de la falta de virtud, las verdaderas enfermedades, la herida del tiempo y toda suerte de agravios sociales y personales riegan con su amargura la vida. Basta que esa amargura rebase ciertos límites para caer en la dependencia de algún placer ambivalente, muchas veces de raíz masoquista, que ayuda a seguir viviendo cuando falta la decisión necesaria para el suicidio, y falta también la alegría de existir.
~ Antonio Escohotado
Penteo, Postumio, Bodino y Torquemada tienen en común confiar en persecuciones que amplifican lo perseguido, y que sólo al cesar producen el efecto buscado; dicho de otro modo: empresas que triunfan fracasando, y viceversa.
~ Antonio Escohotado
Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
~ Antonio Machado
A person should never feel ashamed of the successive failure in own career and life because if he gets to know the fact as how most people have made their monetary success and shamelessly show happiness over it , then he would not even like to spit on their shit face.
~ Anuj Somany
An entrepreneurial spirit that is sought in the workforce should not be mixed and confused with the spirit that an entrepreneur has got , as there are enough evidences and instances in which a person who has failed as an employee has turned out to be a successful entrepreneur, and vice versa.
~ Anuj Somany
Foolish employees usually have a smooth sail whereas ones who have talents & entrepreneurial skill will repeatedly fail in jobs of the corporate world,which is nothing but a jail.
~ Anuj Somany
He who takes his academic books seriously often fails miserably in the private corporate world.
~ Anuj Somany
Loyal dog tried all means and ways to protect animals from getting into wolf's trap, but failed miserably in cases of asses wearing caps or masks.
~ Anuj Somany
Organizations in the private sector go bankrupt , but often not its owner.
~ Anuj Somany
Private organization is often such that the employer keeps intentionally the indolent employees over intelligent person for getting the job done under pressure. And when its business profit gets lower than the financial gain figure of the previous year, the owner or senior in order to find a scapegoat can give any absurd reason for failure or may even squarely put the blame on academic institutions by saying that they are not churning out enough employable grads.
~ Anuj Somany