Quotes About Failure

He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Nesse jogo que estamos jogando, não temos como vencer. Alguns tipos de fracassos são melhores que outros.

No. I believe it. I know that you will fail. There is something in the universe—I don't know, some spirit, some principle—that you will never overcome.

The unwinding brings freedom, more than the world has ever granted, and to more kinds of people than ever before—freedom to go away, freedom to return, freedom to change your story, get your facts, get hired, get fired, get high, marry, divorce, go broke, begin again, start a business, have it both ways, take it to the limit, walk away from the ruins, succeed beyond your dreams and boast about it, fail abjectly and try again.

If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not observe them.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors utterly forgotten?

That's what a book is: a failed attempt that, its failure notwithstanding, is sincere and hard-worked and expunged of as much falseness as he could manage, given his limited abilities, and has thus been imbued with a sort of purity.

Whatever failures you feel you may have been responsible for, leave them behind you now, she said. All turned out beautifully. Come with us. Come where though? I said. I don't - You are a wave that has crashed upon the shore, she said. See, I don't get that, I said.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors utterly forgotten? lawrence t. decroix

We were low, lost, an object of ridicule, had almost nothing left, were failing, must take some action to halt our fall, and restore ourselves to ourselves. hans vollman

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors utterly forgotten? lawrence t. decroix Fortunately

something begun so well had now gone off the rails (as down South similar kings watched), and if it went off the rails, so went the whole kit, forever, and if someone ever thought to start it up again, well, it would be said (and said truly): The rabble cannot manage itself. Well, the rabble could. The rabble would. He would lead the rabble in managing. The thing would be won.

Cuando un negocio fracasa, miles de personas se quedan sin empleo o endeudadas; sus directos se escabullen llevándose millones en bonos y en fulgurantes apretones de mano. Y, sin embargo, a ninguno de estos rufianes, que son los responsables, se les escupe, ¡por no decir se les fusila!

Heckuva job, Brownie!

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure. I was free to follow my instincts, enjoy my life, and love my parents as much as they loved me.

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

99% OF FAILURE COME FROM PEOPLE WHO MAKE EXCUSES

If we are to die, it will be from internal failures, from the ungovernable dark places of the mind – the scaffolding left over from evolution's bloody building program.

The announcement of a vast project is always its betrayal.

Ce sont les échecs de la vie qui attirent, qui ont attiré l'attention sur la vie. Toute connaissance a sa source dans la réflexion sur un échec de la vie.

Ni los que lo tuvieron casi todo ni los que no tuvieron casi nada triunfaron en la vida.

For he seldom fails who is not wanting to himself; while those who depend upon the assistance of others, appear very often to fall short of their aims.

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.