Quotes About Failure

To fly too high and fall, to go too deep and get stuck, these are alike symptoms of an overvaluation of the ego that ends in disaster, death, or madness.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.

We can't save everyone...not all the time.

He wanted to be a great warrior and a good mentor more than anything else, but it seemed painfully clear that Tigerclaw was just waiting for him to fail. CHAPTER 9 Fireheart woke to find Graystripe sitting beside him, hunched on his belly like a rabbit, his shoulders stiff and his fur fluffed out.

You didn't want me to feel different, so you let me feel like a failure. I've always thought I was just a ... a terrible leopard. I can't jump, can't hunt, not like the others. I've been struggling to keep up my whole life. Different would have been better.

It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.

If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.

Great poets confront the limits of actual poems, tactically defeat or at least suspend that actuality, sometimes quit writing altogether, becoming celebrated for their silence; truly horrible poets unwittingly provide a glimmer of virtual possibility via the extremity of their failure; avant-garde poets hate poems for remaining poems instead of becoming bombs; and nostalgists hate poems for failing to do what they wrongly, vaguely claim poetry once did.

Another historic storm had failed to arrive, as though we lived outside of history or were falling out of time.

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.

It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.

We would be left holding Lehman's bad assets, having selectively bailed out the creditors who could exit the most quickly, and the firm would fail anyway.

we had no means of saving the firm.

That dynamic would doom our efforts to failure.

The failure of this firm was unlikely to have a broad economic impact, and so we believed a 13(3) loan was not justified.

The company was so large and interconnected with the rest of the financial system that the ramifications of its failure would be massive, if hard to predict.

If a means of saving Lehman did exist, given the tools then available, we were not clever enough to think of it during those frenetic days.

part of our mistake in 1998 was a failure to appreciate just how strong the U.S. economy was

Would it have been better for market confidence to have admitted that we were unable to save Lehman?

I feared at the time that avoiding the firm's failure might only delay the inevitable. Today

Nevertheless, I do not want the notion that Lehman's failure could have been avoided, and that its failure was consequently a policy choice, to become the received wisdom, for the simple reason that it is not true.