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Quotes About Failure

If everyone does as I've instructed, then things should work out the way they're meant to. (Acheron) And if we don't? (Talon) We're all screwed. (Acheron) Gee, Ash, you're just so damn comforting. (Nick) I try to be anyway. (Acheron) You fail admirably. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Asteros's Motto: Most experience comes from bad judgement.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Damn, all I wanted was a drink of coffee and one little beignet. Coffee… Daimons… Coffee…Daimons. (Talon) I think in this case the Daimons better win. (Wulf) Yeah, but it's chicory coffee. (Talon) Talon wanting to be toasted by Acheron for failure to protect humans. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
See, Sway, that's what you get for flunking your pilot's test six times…which I'm pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for the actual flunking, definitely for the persistence in pursuing that which you obviously have no talent for. Personally, I wouldn't let you fly a remote-control kid's plane. (Vik) Shut up before I find a can opener. (Sway)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And if we fail? (Delphine) It'll suck to be human. (Madoc)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Excuse me, but I've been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never once gone after a target and failed. Ever. (Shahara) Yeah, but you've never been chased before. It's a lot harder to be the prey than it is to be the predator. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Then know that I'll be laughing at your ineptitude every time your enemies strike you, and if you fail to return with my daughter, I'll have your heart and your head for decorations. (Zephyra) Your words are noted, my most prickly rose. And I shall endeavor to keep your amusement at a bare minimum. (Stryker)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place
~ Denis Waitley
If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.
~ Donna Jo Napoli
If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.
~ Douglas Lain
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
~ Edward Bennett Williams
Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt.
~ Eric Thomas
I've spent my life making blunders.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
~ Sarah Dessen
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
~ Simon Newcomb
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
~ Steve Wozniak
There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.
~ Susan Powter
I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.
~ Tavis Smiley
Success will ruin your life.
~ Tom Clancy
The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.
~ Tony Robbins
In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
~ W. H. Auden
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
~ Julian Barnes