Quotes About Failure

Everything I touch turns to shit, he thinks, not with self-pity, but with an almost scientific fascination at the truth of it.

I was as sure as I could humanly be, and still, I failed. So what do you think your chances are if you've already got serious doubts?

It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

la disperazione è il peccato più grave, perché è il rifiuto a trarre profitto dalle infecondità dell'insuccesso

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.

Nathaniel, who has failed as a writer, decides to commit suicide. He loads his revolver, places it at his side on his desk, and starts to write his letter of farewell. The letter lengthens, brightens, breathes, lives. It is the Masterpiece, the yearned-for Masterpiece! In order to publish it, Nathaniel does not commit suicide.

La sociedad nos prepara para el éxito a través de las escuelas y universidades, con el ejemplo de personas que triunfan en todas las disciplinas; sin embargo, la piedra angular del crecimiento personal es cómo encaramos los fracasos y sinsabores de la vida y qué aprendemos de ellos.

entonces brota la ansiedad ante la menor amenaza de enfermedad, de incomodidad, de fracaso económico, de pérdida de la belleza, incluso de vejez. Esta ansiedad es a menudo anticipada, es decir, surge antes de que realmente llegue el problema, ya que existe la sensación de incapacidad para superarlo, con lo que se teme que se produzca el propio desmoronamiento y la «disolución del yo», que es el fundamento último de la ansiedad.

The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it…

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Meglio essere saggi e sfortunati che sciocchi e molto fortunati. È preferibile che un'azione pianificata con giudizio fallisca piuttosto che qualcosa preparato senza ragionarci su venga premiato dalla sorte.

Every policy that begins on the assumption of keeping someone weak forever is doomed to fail.

If a systemic crisis occurs, the FDIC may rescue a bank in the non-least-cost-way—for example, by paying off creditors who are not covered by deposit insurance or keeping a bank temporarily alive when it is insolvent—when nonpayment of creditors or the bank's failure would threaten the system.

If you excel, you will be "remarkable for being an Indian." If you fail, you will be "no surprise because you're an Indian." Every observation in between extremes will be framed, even

We must now turn to the idea of a systems collapse, a systemic failure with both a domino and multiplier effect, from which even such a globalized international, vibrant, intersocietal network as was present during the Late Bronze Age could not recover.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.