Quotes About Failure

Mourning over personal sin and failure is an indispensable stage in the process of sanctification, and it is facilitated by fasting.

Fallire un suicidio non è poi la cosa più tragica al mondo: non si può riuscire sempre in tutto.

Když se nepovede sebevražda, není to nezbytn? ta nejsmutn?jší v?c na sv?t?. ?lov?ku se nem?že poda?it všechno.

Ale je?li próba samobójcza ko?czy si? niepowodzeniem, nie zawsze musi to oznacza? najtragiczniejsz? rzecz na ?wiecie. Przecie? nie wszystko cz?owiekowi si? udaje.

Ni en el siglo dieciocho ni ahora —continuó al cabo de un momento— acepta nadie que su fracaso se deba a falta de talento, sino que ve injusticias, conspiraciones y desdenes por todas partes...

La rebelión sentimental de las masas, el odio a los mejores, la escasez de éstos. He ahí la raíz verdadera del gran fracaso hispánico (JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

Percibí en su voz un tono que ya conocía bien: resignación y ausencia de ilusiones sobre el éxito o fracaso de la empresa; resolución fatigada, silenciosa, desprovista de interés salvo por los detalles técnicos, del soldado veterano dispuesto a afrontar con sencillez un mal rato que forma parte de su oficio.

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital.

A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone's lives.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

Excellence and succession are built on the foundation of failure.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

The failure of the Cripps Mission spared the Muslim League from the embarrassment of seeing its main constituents abandon all- India purposes for their own regionally construed concerns.

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek the sunlight. The Universe did not create Life in the hope that the failure of the majority would underscore the success of the few.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.