Quotes About Failure

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway.

I have seen love that, through its willingness to sacrifice everything, brought hope to the world. I have seen love that tried to overcome pride and a lust for power, but failed. The world is darker for its failure, but it is only as a cloud dims the sun. The sun—the love, still remains. Finally I have seen love lost in darkness. Love misplaced, misunderstood, because the lover did not know his—or her—own heart.

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons for its existence, its starting point, and its source. My own failure to discover these things has sometimes inclined me toward magical explanations, and has led me to seek in the frenzies of the occult for what common sense has not taught me.

Turning into a vampire is bad enough – I don't need to flunk out of school on top of it.

When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?

My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I hadn't a job. I hadn't any qualifications. I'd achieved nothing with my life. I'd never been happy. I had no husband or boyfriend.

and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be

Without the test of heat, no metal proves its strength; without the test of life, no love can prove its worth. Rare is the love that survives the tests of the life she knew, but the pain from loves that failed those tests could fill more than one lifetime.

El único fracaso verdadero es no ser capaces de crecer como resultado de nuestras experiencias.

los sentimientos de fracaso se presentan en todas nuestras vidas y que lo que importa es en quién nos convirtamos como resultado.

Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

Cleverness has a special piquancy when it blooms out of the fraying sleeve of failure.

He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~

That stab in the heart she felt when she woke, and the panicky doubt that her life was in her grasp, not fraud or failure, not entirely - that was a brief misery and one she could set aside by putting the light on and reading for a while. She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.

Failures are very important—they mean a great deal to me. After a big failure, I go into a deep depression and a very dark part of my body, but soon afterward I come back to life again, alive to something else.

Feminista trágica —porque su lucha es individual, más intuitiva que lógica, contradictoria porque busca lo que rechaza, y condenada al fracaso—, en Emma late íntimamente el deseo de ser hombre.