Quotes About Failure

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

For the records I lose graduation exam three times. Cause there was this one jutsu there always on the exam. It trip me every time. It was one jutsu I couldn't master. Yes, my clones were pathetic, I flown the shadow clone jutsu every time. So don't come whining to ne this destiny stuff and stop trying to tell me you can't change what your are. You can do it too, cause after all unlike me you are not a failure.

Those who cannot acknowledge themselves will eventually fail

America was the very definition of modernity; it was the country that Russia had failed to become.

The elite gets things wrong, says Douglas Carswell in The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy, 'because they endlessly seek to govern by design a world that is best organized spontaneously from below'. Public policy failures stem from planners' excessive faith in deliberate design. 'They consistently underrate the merits of spontaneous, organic arrangements, and fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one.

Economists are quick to speak of 'market failure', and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from 'government failure'.

The restaurant business is robust and successful precisely because individual restaurants are vulnerable and short-lived. Taleb wishes that society honoured ruined entrepreneurs as richly as it honours fallen soldiers.

the first century of the US Federal Reserve's existence has been a failure. Not only has there been incontinent inflation since 1913, the year the Fed came into existence (8 per cent in the preceding 120 years, 2,300 per cent in the succeeding hundred years), but there has been devastating deflation too, and more banking panics, more financial volatility, longer and deeper recessions.

Failure is just learning. It's just a perspective. Failure is the first part of learning and the process you go through to figure things out.

Disease and death directly attributable to massive health care policy failure was and remains a far more real danger to American lives than any military enemy.

Anxiety is very accommodating. Minutes ago, Stevie's anxiety was all about failure. It neatly converted itself into worry about places called Bounce Houses and not having hot water or air-conditioning. It was perfectly ready to bring the snakes to the party. It's a big tent. All problems are welcome.

Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.

He was seeing the full extent of her failure—in the immensity of his own indifference. The droning stream of her insults was like the sound of a distant riveting machine, a long, impotent pressure that reached nothing within him.

The issue now is men's lack of integrity, their failure to act according to the ideals they espouse.

Si tienes éxito, algún fracasado será tu dueño; si fracasas, algún triunfador será tu siervo.

If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.

It had been said that men develop brains when they have failed in everything else.

These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.

Yet in fact he fails on both fronts. In the case of Lolita, he never succeeds in possessing her willingly, so that every act of lovemaking from then on becomes a crueler and more tainted act of rape; she evades him at every turn. And he fails to completely seduce the reader, or some readers at least. Again ironically, his ability as a poet, his own fancy prose style, exposes him for what he is.

I fail to remember, the mind has fuses.

For Michelle, the road to the good life was narrow and full of hazards. Family was all you could count on, big risks weren't taken lightly, and outward success—a good job, a nice house—never made you feel ambivalent because failure and want were all around you, just a layoff or a shooting away.