Quotes About Failure

Naturalmente, la comparación de lo ocurrido a Sartre en este libro con lo que le ocurrió a Flaubert en el último que escribió es obligatoria. ¿Cabe un parecido mayor, un fracaso tan igualmente admirable y por razones tan idénticas como el de L'Idiot de la famille y Bouvard et Pécuchet? Ambas son tentativas imposibles, empresas destinadas a fracasar porque ambas se habían fijado de antemano una meta inalcanzable, estaban

To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

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But she wasn't really listening, because underneath it all ran the fear that it had nothing to do with good fortune, that he had earned this, and she resented him because she could have done it, too, if she'd applied herself properly, become a lawyer, moved to Canada, run a business, and what she saw when she looked at Richard was not his success but her own failure.

Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound.

Sometime love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing, and then it is very bitter. It is bitter because somewhere within you the perfect standard still lives, the pure expectation against which failure and betrayal are contrasted like the dark shadows on a moonlit road.

the global climate models (whether downscaled to regions or not) have failed to predict changes in the statistics of regional climate…

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it's how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most people would have—and stay out of her way.

If the impulse to act correctly did not come from yourself, Confucius said to a follower, what good could it do for you? In his mind, the moral was beautiful, and it should not succumb to rules. Rules diminish its beauty and subtlety, and adherence to them is an admission of one's own moral failure.

There is an undercurrent of almost hysterical glee in his descriptions of Mary as a menacing and infectious brute – as if by calling her dangerous and unstable he was mitigating his own failure and fears.

Tinham sido três tentativas, três falhanços, três restaurantes. Felizmente ainda era novo, e portanto podia descansadamente culpar outros fatores pela minha baixa percentagem de sucesso: maus donos, má localização, clientes feios, decoração horrível… Não me incomodava. Ainda tinhas esperanças.

And I made things worse—far worse—in all the drearily predictable ways. Underscore that sentence.

What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He sometimes wore tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles to correct a slight squint, and through influence he had recently got a job in a museum. His father was a retired civil servant who lived in Essex, where he and his wife kept a chicken farm.

At the same time, a faint sense of disappointment superimposed on an otherwise absorbing inner experience was in its way suitably Proustian too: a reminder of the eternal failure of human life to respond a hundred per cent; to rise to the greatest heights without allowing at the same time some suggestion, however slight, to take shape in indication that things could have been even better.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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La diferencia entre quienes triunfan y quienes fracasan no estriba en lo que tienen, sino en lo que han elegido ver y emprender a partir de sus experiencias en la vida.

But he was chiefly angry with himself for this, — that he had been a villain without gaining anything by his villainy; that he had been a villain, and was to lose so much by his villainy.

You never tried it, sir. I fear it, father; I fear that I may fail to teach myself to sit contented at Count Upsel's feet, and greet long years of gilded idleness with constant smiles.

At any rate, it is as easy to do that as to tell of the man who is one hour good and the next bad, who aspires greatly but fails in practice, who sees the higher but too often follows the lower course.