Quotes About Failure

But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

The passionate man seeks possession; he seeks to attain being. The failure and the hell which he creates for himself have been described often enough. He causes certain rare treasures to appear in the world, but he also

It is not a matter of approaching a fixed limit: absolute Knowledge or the happiness of man or the perfection of beauty; all human effort would then be doomed to failure, for with each step forward the horizon recedes a step; for man it is a matter of pursuing the expansion of his existence and of retrieving this very effort as an absolute.

It is because there are real dangers, real failures and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose that he can also win.

Ce ne sont pas les individus qui sont responsables de l'échec du mariage: c'est l'institution elle-même qui est originellement pervertie

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

En tout cas le plus grand malheur pour nous serait de périr impuissants à la fois à réussir et à comprendre.

This same distortion appears when the gospel is preached to the natural man. Boston was all too familiar with the instinct of the awakened individual to say, "I will now try much harder, and I will do better." It seems logical: I realize I have failed. I must reverse this failure by doing better. But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit.

I'm not sure that I shall. I'm trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I've failed at every positive thing I've tried. I'd better 'settle down,' as they call it, and be satisfied to be—nothing.

So kindly," Carol mused, "so well meant, so neighborly – and so confoundedly untrue. Is it really my failure, or theirs?

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.

We've all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.

That dream's over," I say shortly. "Partners don't make fifty-million-quid mistakes.

But maybe I was lucky, I find myself thinking. We've all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.

All men make mistakes.

Thus (through the eyes of my young acolyte, Who sees for me, that I may see for others) I read the signs of failure in my quest.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.