Quotes About Failure

Jenny Casey, you've skewered the pooch this time.

I think you did try to save him for you loved him. And he failed to be saved because he loved himself.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.

Language seldom fails quietly, it fails noisily.

I did everything I could." Tears scalded Alienor's eyes. "But it was not enough.

Non esiste una parola peggiore di "potenziale". È la storia di tutte le cose che non saranno mai

He's failed her as much as she's betrayed him. Nothing more needs to be known or said.

And sometimes men fail, I answered silently. Sometimes they don't forgive. Sometimes what you see is only the bright surface of something cold and deep.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

No," said Miss Giles. "I've become embittered. One can admit no worse failure than that can one?" "I think so," said John. "Embitterment shows a failure of humor, of humility, but not necessarily of tenacity. If you still know how to hold on you can still redeem what's lost.

The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.

The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.

Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he didn't want to tell her about it; he just wanted her to suffer and be reduced, in his imagination and her own. There was no point in understanding any of this if she couldn't see a way through it.

at the time of my visit he still had failed to

People who are placed on a pedestal are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. I regularly fuck it up. Consider me already knocked off. —Roxane Gay

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.

You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. Failure is a teacher – a harsh one, perhaps, but the best. You say you have a desk full of rejected manuscripts? That's great! Every one of those manuscripts was rejected for a reason. Have you pulled them to pieces looking for that reason? You've got to put failure to work for you. That's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure.

crucial for understanding that more celebrated book. For in writing the Discourses, Machiavelli discovered a basic paradox: When it comes to liberty, nothing fails like success.

Het leven van een man die vliegen wil, bestaat vooral uit vallen

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.